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Tricks of Soldering Part 2 – Gold Leaf

by Stephen Byrne on May 28, 2010

Continuing our short series on how we glass painters can sometimes escape – or do I mean, disguise? – the leaden bonds which hold us.

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On a Glazing Bench, darkly

by Stephen Byrne on December 3, 2009

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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The Expert Assistant’s Assembly

Stained glass cross with Saints Francis and Martha by Williams and Byrne, designers, painters and restorers of stained glass

by Stephen Byrne on October 27, 2009

As many of you saw on our live Twitter feed from the studio – see right, “It’s Happening Right Now …” – our itinerant expert assistant joined us last week from the Isle of Arran (just off the west coast of Scotland). [click to continue…]