bottlethreads of different colouredglass, heated it again, and thenwith a pointed instrument orhook dragged them up anddown into zigzags, somewhatin the way that the book-binder combs into patternthe film of colour with whichhe marbles the edges of hisvolume. To bring the bottleto an even surface… … 233. GLASS UPON GLASS—SAXON. >36 ORNAMENT AND ITS APPLICATION. notion of winding threads of molten glass which seems tohave occurred natural!}- to glass-blowers all the world over.In the little flask on page 238, Greek work, the glass-blower has trailed about his coloured threads in the formof a…
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