Mason, George C. (George Champlin), 1820-1894 · New York : G.P. Putnam · leaf 440
292 ART-MANUFACTURES. to the fabrication of vases. He arranges around the inner surface of a cylindrical mould as many canes as he requires to form a complete circle around the sides of the mould. These canes are fixed to the bottom of the mould by means of a little soft earth which has been spread… … intersperse them with canes of plain white glass. The canes, thus arranged, are heated in the glass furnace ; the glass-maker then gathers, with the blowing-iron, a small quantity of white glass, to make a solid ball, with which he fills up the empty space formed by the circle of rods which cover…
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