Vintage Venetian Brown and Black Glass Bead Necklace

Vintage, Aventurina Sommerso (submerged), 8mm round, black Venetian bead necklaces. These handmade, Venetian glass beads have inclusions of Aventurina, or small pieces of copper inside each bead, and black Murano glass. The necklaces are hand knotted, and accented with Italian, filigree bead caps around each handmade, lamp worked bead. Aventurina Sommerso beads, are one of the oldest style of Venetian glass beads, that has been handmade, continuously, without interruption, in Venice, Italy. In fact, they are some of the first styles we purchased in Venice, Italy.