Paperweight & Marble Making

Includes information on setting up a studio and techniques.

Basic techniques plus Paperweights,” pp. 242-245; overview incl. techniques at the furnace, with a torch, and by vacuum-forming.

Varieties and Methods, pp 25-42.

The Making of Weights: pp 6-20

Creation of paperweights: pp 41-64.

Pp. 25-42: How Paperweights Are Made.

This is a greatly revised and expanded electronic version of the title "The dictionary of paperweight signature canes."
Contents
Cumulative index -- Pontil stamps & acid etched markings -- Section 1. Through Gooderham -- Section 2. Graham through Schneider -- Section 3. Scotia to Z -- Section 4. Bibliographies.

Includes line drawings of paperweight shapes and of the process of making a paperweight.

Additional info: Degenhart Museum

This videotape features many of the 400 weights displayed in the Corning Museum of Glass with an emphasis on those made by French 19th century factories. Also shown are techniques of millefiori, lampworking, sulphides, and crimping, as well as footage of how weights are made today. Included are views of paperweight making at Baccarat, Saint-Louis, Wheaton Village, and the studios of Paul Stankard and Victor Trabucco

Advanced techniques, showing 4 different paperweights being made.