Cindy Whitehead from Cleburne, Texas wrote to say her first silhouettes had blistered in the kiln when they were fired.
What went wrong?
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Does Old Glass Sag At The Bottom?
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Or: “The Tale of the Stained Glass Designer and the Naked Scientist”
“Not the BBC again!?!”
Here’s what happened …
David and I were working away, minding our own business, and finishing off the fourth set of brand-new windows that we’ve been making for a mansion on the shores of Lake Geneva, when the phone rang.
It was the BBC.
A radio producer wanted to know if old glass was thicker at the bottom.
The reason is, glass has a name for being a “super-cooled liquid” (just as Williams & Byrne has a reputation for being a super-cool stained glass design studio.)