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What Is A Paperweight?
While any material, such as stone, can be used as a paperweight, glass ornamental paperweights are made by either lone craftsmen or companies. A paperweight is a tiny, solid item that is heavy enough to be placed on top of papers to prevent them from shifting while being painted or blowing away in the wind (as with Chinese calligraphy).
Any material, like a stone, can be used as a paperweight. Still, ornamental paperweights made of glass are made by either individual artists or companies, generally in small quantities. They are collected as works of fine glass art, some of which are shown in museums.
Paperweight Enthusiasts
There are a lot of paperweight enthusiasts around the globe. Numerous collectors’ organizations host national or local conferences and fund events, including tours, talks, and auctions. The authors Colette, Oscar Wilde, and Truman Capote are all well-known collectors.
The wives of Napoleon III’s Empress Eugenie, Maximilian I of Mexico’s Empress Carlotta, and Farouk, King of Egypt, were all ardent collectors. The histories of Rubloff, Bergstrom and Houghton’s collections were comparable. They had a passion for collecting and the good fortune of having enough money to amass substantial collections of extremely costly and rare weights.
Making Paperweights
Making glass paperweights was not a novel process. They frequently used mosaic glass, a caneworking technique whose earliest varieties date back more than 3,000 years. The 18th century saw the rise of lampworking and encasing techniques, enabling 19th-century glassmakers to create tiny flowers and animals that could be preserved inside a thick, colourless or multicoloured glass sphere.
Nowadays, paperweights are made, collected, and valued more for their aesthetic value than for their use. They are nearly entirely composed of glass. However, other materials, such as transparent acrylic, have occasionally been utilized. Around 1850, France started producing the first, but it didn’t gain widespread appeal until the early to mid-20th century.
Most paperweights are glass domes designed to be looked through from various angles and can be held effortlessly in one hand. The dome has the effect of a lens, altering or enlarging the look of the embedded paperweight pattern. The paperweight needed to have been created in one of three French factories—Baccarat, St. Louis, or Clichy—between 1845 and 1860 to qualify as a “classic.”
Collector Paperweight Design Types
Glass paperweight collectors may concentrate on a particular variety, but more frequently, they have a varied collection. Here are a few common paperweight designs.
Lampwork: This technique uses extremely realistically styled and positioned items like flowers, fruit, and insects. This technique is mainly used by studio artists who use a gas burner to shape and manipulate pieces of coloured glass before arranging them into lovely compositions included in the dome.
Millefiori: These weights, constructed of cross-sections of cylindrical composite canes made from colourful rods, are commonly produced in factories. The Italian word millefiori, which means “thousand flowers,” is appropriate given how much the canes resemble little flowers.
Victorian: For this kind of paperweight, black milk glass or enamel-like coating is used to bond an image to the underside of a rectangular piece of glass.
How To Present Them
Paperweights can be arranged as a centrepiece in a glass bowl or on a table near a mirror. Paperweights can be used or displayed in unusual ways to showcase their attractiveness. Place little paperweights with a culinary or edible plant motif on a spice rack in the kitchen. Organize many on a shelf or counter in the bathroom.
