Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1894 — Brushes of Spun Glass. [ARTICLE]

Brushes of Spun Glass.

An American glass manufacturer has now begun to make glass brushes such as are used by china decorators for burnishing the gilding on china after it comes from the kiln. These brushes now come from Bohemia. They are marvels of glass spinning. They are made of glass fibres so fine thut they look like spun silk. These fibres are rolled up in bundles about six inches in length and in three sizes in diameter, half inch, threequarters, and one inch. The bundles are wound with cord to within about three-quarters of an inch of each end, each end being used as a brush. The brushes are cut square across the ends, and so extremely fine are the glass fibres that in the face of the brush the compact centre presents a velvety appearance. The brushes are flexible and silky to the touch. They wear away in use, and as they wear the cord is cut away to leave the end of sufficient length.—[New York Sun>