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Pa′per-weight.

Paper-weights are made of various materials, as metal, ornamental stone, or glass. The former two are made by casting or cutting, but the latter, the most beautiful objects of their kind, are formed by arranging a series of small glass tubes of different colors so as to constitute the desired pattern within cavities in a thick disk; a layer of transparent molten glass is then applied, to which they adhere so as to be removable from the disk, after which a second layer of molten glass is applied to the opposite side; the whole is then heated and shaped by means of a moistened wooden concave spatula, and is afterward annealed and polished on the wheel. Figures or portraits made from refractory clay are inclosed in a similar way; but metallic objects, which would be injured by extreme heat, are merely inserted in a properly shaped cavity previously formed in the weight and secured by a cloth glued to its lower surface. See millefiore-glass. See also list under glass.

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