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Stained glass design

Stained Glass Plating – Poor Craftsmanship or Not?

February 15, 2010 Stained glass design

“Plating” is the leading up of two or more glasses of the same shape, one behind the other.
Here’s what E. Liddall Armitage has to say on the matter:
“Some artists resort to plating and even tend to boast about it, but it is best avoided” (Stained Glass, Leonard Hill Books Limited, London, 1960, p. 130).

He presents [...]

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Piet Mondrian and Stained Glass

November 5, 2009 Stained glass design

Here’s an interesting story from our our colleague, Ebel Rispens, who lives in Groningen in The Netherlands.
It’s in response to our recent post about sunlight and stained glass design.
Ebel writes:
It’s a fact that Piet Mondrian never ever made or designed a stained glass window.
And do you know why?
He refused to have anything to do [...]

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A Geometric Solution

October 23, 2009 Stained glass design
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The Journalist Rings
Bless her, she’d been asked to write an article for next February’s Homes & Gardens (and she’d rung us five months early because she knew how busy we get …):
“I’m writing about buying and using stained glass and I’ve been looking at your website with great interest …
(What a lovely journalist, I thought.)
… [...]

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Sunlight and Stained Glass Design

September 25, 2009 Stained glass design
Sunlight at stained glass studio #2

The light was heavenly here the other day – just as David was working on a water-colour design in our stained glass Studio #2 …

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