The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1895-10-03
POKER AND GLASS
No Reference to the Game of Pairs, but
to q Form of Art.

TO u fOrm OF ATT.
For long time poker work, or
Typography, has been a fashionable
art, but until recently it has been
generally applied to wood only.
Now, however, glass typography is
being taken up, and thus quite a
new field is being opened i'll this fas-
clnating branch of decorative work.
In the newer form of typography the
burning process is exactly the same
as IN the old poker work on wood,
which is now so we'll known, only
the platinum point is made many
degrees hotter for the glass-indeed
it can scarcely be too hot to accom-
plish the desired result, and there
fore it needs to be of special hard
ness. This being the case, art deal
ers now sell points made on purpose
for glass typography.
The glass used is the ordinary
plate, and through it the design can
readily be traced with the hot point
by those who have not the skill to
draw offhand, which saves all trou-
BILE of transferring the pattern. An
other advantage which glass has
over wood is that it has no grain,
and therefore the lines of the novice
are not marked by that unevenness
which characterizes the work of
tyro in the art of wood burning.
Glass typography may be adapted
to the decoration of mirrors, screens,
panels, ETC., and if carefully done
will be found an excellent imitation
of engraved work of the finest kind,
and the effect, if good design be
chosen, will be most delicate and
beautiful. Just a white frosted de-
sign on the clear glass looks very
we'll, but the worker will soon be
ambitious of better things.
A pretty piece of the work shows
a loose bunch of oXeye daisies and
field grasses burned into ordinary
clear plate glass. The design when
| first executed had frosted appear
ance, but this was removed by care
fully scraping off all roughness with
q sharp knife, thus leaving the
daisies and grasses in clear outline.
| The work i'll that state was beauti.
| ful, but it was made more so in the
following manner: A layer of gold
paint was carried entirely over part
of the design, all the etched lines
4 being filed with it.
To effect this pad of soft Glot1
was used damped with turpentint
to remove all the gold on the fla
surface between the lines. An ordi
nary paper stump with rag over i
was used TO clean off the rest Thi
left merely a fine gold tracery on tn,
glass, and on tsrning the plate i
serrued tn stand in relief on it's sur
face, thORgh it actually only shove,
through from the other side. 4
thick coat of ivory enamel was the
laid ON, great care being taken no
to drag Up the gold from the lines
This gave the effect of ivory ant
gold from the other side and rem
dered the glass opaque.
Any ether fastra or metallic pain
may beused iinstead of gold, and tn,
color of the enamel may De chosen
to suit the fancy. In working in re
member that the point must be KEEP
at almost white heat, that it must
be perfectly clean, and that it must
not be used for wood scorching
Should the point be insufficiently
heated no apaount of force will affect
the glass, but it will injure the point
itself. The pressure on the point
must be firm and steady, but no.
hard. 1t is not we'll to work too Ions
upon one spot, for the heat should
be distributed as much as possible
The special point for glass pyrog
raphy is furnished with an inner
mechanism for generating heat, and,
though the work may be done with
an ordinary point heated to almost
| white heat, still the process is tedi-
Gus and the tool will soon be too
much damaged for further use.
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