Weekly Photo Challenge … Unique

These Murano or Venetian  Wound-glass beads are unique.  They were a Christmas present although I don’t know whether they are 19th Century or not.  I do know they are made using the age old method unchanged since the 1800s,  that is complicated (often secret) and labour intensive.
The molten glass is wound round a rod or wire so that there is no need to drill or perforate the bead.   

Further reading The history of beads by Lois Sherr Dublin.