millefiori

Several Baccarat millefiori weights from the 1840s are at the top of the range.

These beads are also known as Millefiori.

A lot of weights, including some millefiori, depict flowers, fruit, animals, reptiles and human figures.

Murrine can be made in infinite designs-some styles are more familiar, such as millefiori.

She wore a string of gold-netted millefiori beads.

Caning is a technique borrowed from glass artisans, who would know it as millefiori, meaning "a thousand flowers".

The chewy biscuits traditionally uses Tuscan millefiori honey as an essential element for the paste.

Coloured glass and millefiori in the Sutton Hoo Ship Burial.

In some cases, such as millefiori and cloisonné beads, multiple categories may overlap in an inseparably interdependent fashion.

Floral (millefiori) and spiral patterns: This was produced by binding rods of coloured glass together and heating and fusing them into a single piece.

The most recognizable weights are called millefiori (thousand flowers), decorative glass made by fusing glass rods of different shapes and colors that are then thinly sliced in cross sections.

The better-known term millefiori is a style of murrine that is defined by each layer of molten colour being shaped by a mold into a star, then cooled and layered again.

Recommended dishes: Farfalle Gorgonzola, spaghetti carbonara, triangular noodles in cream sauce, penne and seafood, escargots, mussels, stuffed mushrooms, spinach salad, veal chops, scaloppine millefiori, shrimp in Pernod, salmon in Dijon sauce, cheesecake, rum cake.

Although the chef's millefiori (crumbled crisp pastry and creme Chantilly) is renowned, we passed it up in favor of a simple pear sorbet and a very assertive, very delicious latte cotto, a dense white pudding, with a honey and orange sauce.

Caning or caneworking, also known as millefiori, draws from a traditional glass technique where a two dimensional design is constructed in three dimensions, with the various colored elements of the design extending all the way through the form from the front surface to the back surface.

Techniques developed during this period include 'slumping' viscous (but not fully molten) glass over a mould in order to form a dish and 'millefiori' (meaning 'thousand flowers') technique, where canes of multi-colored glass were sliced and the slices arranged together and fused in a mould to create a mosaic-like effect.

While the leading expert, Rupert Bruce-Mitford, sees the bowls as the products of "Celtic" workshops, perhaps often in Ireland, in the same period the use of large areas of champlevé in the most ornate Celtic brooches reduces, though gem-like enamel highlights, some in millefiori, are still found.

Insular art drew upon Irish, Pictish, Anglo-Saxon, native British and Mediterranean artistic sources: the 7th-century Book of Durrow owes as much to Pictish sculpture, British millefiori and enamelwork and Anglo-Saxon cloisonné metalwork as it does to Irish art.