GLASS-MAKING. 



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the thought of some of the best artists of the modern American 

 school. 



The enlargement of the colored sketch to natural size is accom- 

 plished by women artists, who work standing before large sheets 

 of heavy brown paper tacked against the walls of the studio. 

 While this mode of procedure would in any case be necessitated by 

 the large size of the cartoons, it has the independent value of per- 



In the Decorating-Room. Treating the Leads. 



mitting the progress of the work to be checked at all stages by 

 long-range scrutiny. As much of the enlargement as possible is 

 done mechanically, but at best there remains much free-hand 

 work requiring genuine artistic feeling. Indeed, throughout the 

 entire process, true artists are needed in the most mechanical por- 

 tions to make the success of the adventure complete. When the 

 enlargement is finished, the cartoon is divided up by heavy black 

 lines so disposed as to represent the doubly grooved lead needed 

 to hold the fragments of colored glass together. Sketch and car- 

 toon are now taken to the glass store-room, and appropriate glass 

 for the window is selected and laid aside. If suitable material is 

 not found in stock, it is ordered in such quantity that the discov- 

 ery of right effects may reasonably be expected. As the accidental 

 element, in spite of all the skill on the part of the glass-worker, is 

 necessarily large, it sometimes happens that a ton of glass must 

 be searched over to find a few pounds of just the right sort. In 

 some cases several months pass before appropriate material can 

 be selected. 



