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Stained glass paints

Stained Glass Painting with Lead-Free Paints

June 24, 2009 Questions and answers
Stained glass painting with lead-free paints

Tom Ansell wrote and asked us whether we’d used lead-free glass paints.
We hadn’t.
So we decided to give them a try.
And here’s what we discovered.
We used Reusche’s Series 5 tracing black (E401) and bistre brown (E402).
Now series 5 is flagged as lead and cadmium free, which is all good and fine. But we would remind you [...]

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Gold

May 23, 2009 Questions and answers

Becky D., from Stoke-on-Trent, England, asked about gold paint.
“I am currently painting an art nouveau style lady for a centre insert into a leaded light. I’m mainly using antique browns and silver stain, possibly with some coloured enamel details for jewels. Now the customer has asked if it is possible to use gold on the [...]

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Stained Glass Paint

January 12, 2009 Stained glass paints
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We’ve tried tracing and matting paints from all over the world. But we always come back to Reusche. Their glass paints mix together to make the lump of glass paint that permits us to do the kind of glass painting we enjoy. (Other brands of paint collapse like slugs with salt on them or like [...]

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