925 Sterling Silver Millefiori Earrings
Type: Sterling Silver, Millefiori Glass
Length: 3.20cm / 1.25 inches
Width: 8.00mm / 0.31 inches
Grams: 1.81
Hallmark: Yes
Colour : Brown

What is Millefiori?
Millefiori means "a thousand flowers" in Italian and is the name given to the type of Murano glass filled with floral designs. Murano glass is ancient Venetian glass that gets its name from an old glass-making region in Italy. The millefiori technique is often used for beads and jewelry making.

The process of creating millefiori begins with Murano glass formed into rods. The rods are made up of bits of molten glass in a wide variety of colors. The tiny spots of color often form many flower-like patterns in the glass and that is why the process is known as "a thousand flowers." The patterned glass is then put into molds so that another layer of glass is formed.

Two glass makers each pull the glass as they walk in opposite directions. The pulled glass forms a long rod. After cooling, the glass rod is sliced so that the pattern shows through each slice. Each slice of the millefiori Murano glass is called a murrine.

Murrines are placed into a mold and heated to make jewelry pendants and other objects. Murrine pendants were not produced until 1968 when a ring of copper was used as a mold for many millefiori pendant shapes such as crosses, hearts and circles. The murrine millefiori pendants are polished to enhance their detailed beauty