Making of Artificial Eyes.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 August 1911, Page 4

Making of Artificial Eyes.

Most of tlio artificial eyes in use all over the world have boon manufactured in Thmringia, wiboro a largo* number of the bouses arc factories on a small scale. Tn many oases four men sit at a table, each with a gas jet before him, and the eyes are blown into plates and moulded into shape by the band'. The colours are traced in with small needles, and, as no sot rule is observed in the colouring, no two eyes are exactly alike. Sometimes a ma.ii or 'woman —having travelled perhaps a great distanceposes for a glass orb. The artisan, with his gas jet. Ins glass and his needle, looks up at the sitter and tilien down at bis work, the scene strongly rnsembles a. portrait painter's studio.