GOLD MIRRORS.
TECHNICAL ART NOT LOST. RESEARCH WORKERS CONFIDENT According to "Nature," the British weekly journal of research, gold mirrors, better than the queens of antiquity ever possessed, yet within the reach of the ordinary citizen, can now be prepared. The making of gold mirrors was once supposed to be a lost art.
To-day, the gold is first made into an organie compound, no doubt by a technique the ancients never accomplished, and this is next decomposed over glass, depositing the precious metal in an exceedingly thin but brilliantly shiny film. A similar compound ha? been found cap-able of being used on fabric like a dye. Perhaps it will take longer, but there is a chalice that next season's evening gowns will call for solid gold.
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Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 20465, 17 November 1938, Page 4
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