For a long period I blamed The History of Beads for using the mistaken "millefiore" rather than the correct "i" ending--thus causing lots of people to misspell the word. In fact, when Lois and I worked on the 2009 edition, I changed the spelling to correct it. However, the publisher did not make this correction, so the mistake stands.

Nevertheless, a couple of years ago I was browsing through the first issue of The Bead Journal--and noted that Robert Liu had misspelled it back in 1974, thirteen years prior to THoB. This is unexpected, since Robert spent his early years in Italy; and one might think he would know better.

JDA.

P.S. Nice beads!