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Show A ROBE OF OL AOS. j In the largo basement room of the: home of S. Isaacs at No. 1434 Mission street, between Tenth and Eleventh, is now weaving the most woctl-ei fui fabric of which the voluminous history his-tory of unique feminine apparel furnishes fur-nishes any account. It is the material, as llexible as tho fiueat of silk and as durable as Blue Jeana Williamt's favorile stufi for trousers, for a lady's dress, and it is woven by the world-renowned world-renowned artist in glasswork, P:ot. Tt.ecdore Greiner, out of innumerable colored strands of glass first spun by himself. Compared with the completed com-pleted carmeut, the mythical glass slipper of the lahulous Cinderella will sink into as vulgar an insignificance as an exhausted Napa soda bottle. A Chronicle reporter called on him recently, and he very courteously showed him the entire procefs. Breaking an extra piece out of the soiied bottom ol au already broken tumbler, be submitted it to the heat of a blow pipe until it benamo incan descent and toft. The with a "stick" of glp-ssbe touched the molten portion, aud with au expert moiiou which may be described asalbphw carried a thread so 6ue that it was almost invisible till it caught on the disc of a slowly-revolving wide wooden wheel of nineteen feet circumfereuce. At a certain number of revolutions Ihe strand was complete, and the wheel was stopped and it is removed. It then consisted of innumerable softly glistening threads, finer than the finest of floss Bilk. These strands aro spun of all colors, and are then washed io a solution of water and beet root sugar, which toughens them. Tho spinning iB all done and occupied many weoks. The weaving is done on an old-fashioned hand-loom, hand-loom, the warp being nineteen feet long and tho woof four feet, so that the mate-rial will cut to advantage. Only about ten inches a day can be woven, and the w'ueole piece will not be completed uutil some time in April. San Francisco Chronicle. 1 |