Beautiful Royal Blue 12mm Millefiori Heart BeadsPrice is per 13 3 4 inch strands of these beautiful 12mm x 12mm x 3mm beads. There are about 32 beads in a string. The hole size 0. 9mm. Millefiori, which translates from Italian to "a thousand flowers". Traditionally, each bead was handmade under the flame, using glass rods to produce a colorful mosaic effect. They were first crafted in Venice as far back as the 15th century, but it was not until the 1920s that they were produced in quantity. First