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Paperweights are made by sole artisans, and in
factories where many artists and technicians
collaborate.
Collectors may specialize in one of several types of
paperweights:Millefiori paperweights that contain thin cross-sections
of cylindrical composite canes
made from colored rods and usually resemble little flowers.
Lampwork paperweights have objects such as flowers, fruit,
butterflies or animals constructed and
then incorporated into the dome . Sulfide
paperweights have an encased three dimensional
medallion or portrait plaque made from a
ceramic.Swirl paperweights have opaque rods of two or three colors
radiating like a pinwheel from a central millefiori floret.
California style paperweights are made by
"painting" the surface of the dome with colored
molten glass, and manipulated with picks or
other tools.Victorian portrait and advertising
paperweights were dome glass paperweight containing pictures of ordinary people reproduced on
a milk-glass disk and encased within clear glass.
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