About Millefiori:

The term millefiori is a combination of the Italian words "mille" (thousand) and "fiori" (flowers). A. Pellatt (in his book "Curiosities of Glass Making") was the first to use the term "millefiori", which appeared in the Oxford Dictionary in 1849. The beads were called mosaic beads before that time. While the use of this technique long precedes the term millefiori, it is now frequently associated with Venetian glassware. Millifiori will always contain flowers and has a very distinct pattern to it which is easy to recognize.

More recently, the millefiori technique has been applied to polymer clays and other materials. Because polymer clay is quite pliable and does not need to be heated and reheated in order to fuse it, it is much easier to produce millefiori patterns than with glass.

Now, two thousand years later, the talented craftsman of Adina Plastelina, have revived this technique and applied it to Polymer Clay, a material superior to glass for producing Millefiori patterns. The play of colors, shapes and patterns, joined together with materials such as Silver, Stainless Steel and Pewter, transform these pieces into handmade, individual works of art, no two of which are identical.