The ferrotype and how to make it - The Grian Press

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CHAPTER XII.
VIGNETTES, MEDALLIONS, ETC.
Vignettes are a very popular style of picture,
and every gallery should be prepared to make them.
They were formerly made by taking a piece of
glass, of the size of the plate on which the Vig-
nette is to be made, and holding it over a candle
flame, so as to blacken an oval shaped Vignette
in the center of the glass. Having exposed the
plate in the camera, return to the dark-room,
take the plate from the holder, place the vignette
glass over the sensitive surface, bringing the
opaque part as nearly over the head and shoulders
as possible ; then open the door and expose for
a few seconds to the light. Withdraw and
develop, when the light will be found to have
whitened all that part of the picture not covered
by the opaque part of the glass, thus producing
a Vignette by a very tedious process applicable
only to one at a time. The next pi jcess was a
patented one and required to be done in the
camera, by having an extra slide of glass, with
an opaque center, to cover the head and shoulders
as before. The exposure having been made, the
tube was covered and the glass slide pushed in,
when the tube was uncovered ; and after a few