A clear jar packed with short cylindrical glass canes, their cut ends showing flower patterns in red, green, blue, yellow and white.
  • The jar seen capped and from further back, the patterned canes settled at the bottom with their red, green, blue and yellow flower ends visible through the plastic.

Millefiori glass chips are small pieces of patterned glass produced using the millefiori (Italian for “thousand flowers”) glassworking technique, in which bundles of colored glass cane are fused into patterned rods, which are then sliced to reveal floral or geometric motifs.

Composition

Glass

Handling Notes

  • Millefiori glass chips are often used to create decorative glass objects, beads for jewelry, and other decorative objects
  • They can be layered or embedded in hot glass work

Applications in Craft

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Provenance

North Carolina Glass Center, Asheville, North Carolina. Acquired 2024.

In Use

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