Imitation Stained Glass.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1863, 14 June 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)

Imitation Stained Glass.

Asiono the many uses of tho printing press none is more norel than tho production of imitation stained glass. Designs for any pattern desned nre engrared on wood. The blocks of wood are placed on an old fashioned band press, and then are inked with oiled colors compoundod with special referenoe to tha use for which they are intended. Thon a sheet of Tory thin hand-made porous paper is laid on, and a piolonged impression given, in ordor that the color may thoroughly peimeate the paper. Each color is, of course, printed at a sepaiato impression. Having completed the printing process, the different pieces of paper which compose the design aie soaked in warm water half an hour, taken out, tho water sponged off, and then coated on ono side with a thin cement. A similar coat of cement is given the glass to which the papor is to ho applied, and then the paper is laid on in place, and vamwhed orer. The plain glass window bceoines at once, to all appearances, a Tvindow of stained glass. The effeGts of tho lead lines, the inegular pieces of coloied glass, tho headi of taints and soldieis, the antique, or the modern Japanese designs are all to bo had as brilliant in color as any imitation can be expected to bo of the genuine' gl.iss. The glass thus prepared costs aWifc one-tenth as much as gpnumo stained gk^s, and can, v hen it requires it, be washed without fear of injuring tho Buifaco.