Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-04-03

coil of small gauge and malieablc gilt
brass Wire and a lot of little quiz
shaped pieces of mother of pearl.
| All the brooches show name; the
brooch maker will make you one with
| any name you want while you wait.
At this moment he is finishing up an
order for half dozen or more, the
names for which had been brought to
| him written on sheet of paper; and
now as he pins the last completed
| brooch on a long strip of soft tissue
paper and rolls the strip up you ask
| him. interested as you are. If he Will
make one for you. Written on a,
scrap of paper you give him the name
Edith, and now while the crowd gath
ers in little closer and with a little
keener to see this order filed, the
brooch maker picks up the coil of
wire and takes off about a foot and
half or perhaps two feet. The name.
an ornamental border design. and tho
hook and pin on the back of the
brooch are all to be produced by
working from end to end this single,
now straight. piece of wire.
First he draws the wire two or
three times through bit of chanois
L
picks ur the pliers and goes to work.
beginning on the wire at a point about
two inches from one end. That length
of straight wire thus left he will bring
into use later
Working deftly and swiftly. he
fashions first the capital letter + in
script form and with an ornamental
extra loop at the bottom. and then
the rest of the name in small letters.
the long, free end of the wire sway
ing this way and that as he manipu-
lates the section in hand with the
pliers. The letters he makes so deftly
and swiftly are each about half an
inch in height and each one is per-
fectly formed and the letters are per-
fectly spaced.
You may wonder as he goes along
how he is going to get the cross on the
letter It." making these letters as he
is from one continuous piece of wire.
but presently YOU see him take turn
of the Wire around the upper end of
the "t'-there's your IT. crossed all
right; and then he goes on rapidly
and makes the III and there's YOUR
name with the letters all finished
iouS II lochS III It's present
shape, the name bent into piece of
wire with two inch wire sticking
down from the letter "E" and a foot
long length of wire extending from
the letter M but you'll Sc the brooch
completed now in minute.
You had wondered what the iron
wheel was for. Now you see the
brooch maker clamp the free end of
the long wire extending from the let
ter m into the hub of the wheel.
The slender wire he uses in making
the brooch is not round, but square,
in cross section; and now, holding
the wheel suspended by the wire he
spins the wheel horizontally at the end
OF 1t and so twists into the wire
throughout its length spiral effect
TO make it more ornamental.
Now he picks out for the back OF
tie brooch one of the Quill shaped
pearl pieces Of suitable length for the
name, There is a hole through each
end of the pearl and now through one
OF thes' holes he thrusts the short
length of wire that extends from the !
letter r, and through the other thek
long spiral wire from the letter "h."'
Now with the pliers he turns a little
ioop IN the snort wire, at the back
this to serve as the spring for the pin
which the short end of wire beyond
1t Is to form. The long spiral wire
which he had thrust through the other
hole he now bends at the back to form
there the hook for the pin: and then
the free long end of this wire. extend
ing from the hook. he twists into a
string Of many little various sized
loops. which he now swings around the
brooch in front for an ornamental
bord r.
Ana now he ships off to its proper
length the short wire at the back that
is to serve as the pin and points 1t
with the file, and there is the brooch
complete.
Time, seven minutes.-Rochester
Herald.