Bracelet — Pearl-Millefiori-Garnet

Mosaic beads can be traced to Ancient Roman, Phoenician and Alexandrian times. Millefiori beads have been uncovered from digs at Sandby borg, Öland, Sweden, dating apparently from the late 5th or early 6th century. A piece of millefiori was found, along with unworked garnets, in a purse at an early 7th-century Anglo-Saxon burial site at Sutton Hoo.

The technical knowledge for creating millefiori was lost by the eighteenth century, and the technique was not revived until the nineteenth century. Within several years of the technique's rediscovery, factories in Italy were manufacturing millefiori canes. They were incorporated into millefiori beads, paperweights and other fine glass art.