From the monthly archives:

December 2009

A Kiln Tray filled with Whiting

December 18, 2009 Stained glass painting tools

A colleague from Australia – wanting the smoothest possible surface for his kiln-fired painted stained glass – wrote and asked us how we prepared our trays …

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The Predictable Unpredictability of Silver Stain

December 8, 2009 Stained glass painting techniques
Silver stain

Nietzsche advocated living dangerously – once urging us to build our houses on the very slopes of fiery Mount Vesuvius. But it’s important not to go too far in this direction …

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On a Glazing Bench, darkly

December 3, 2009 Stained glass conservation

I’m not bitter … but, in this country, a great quantity of medieval stained glass was destroyed by the twin ravages of Thomas Cromwell and the English Civil War.

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