Making Stained Glass: A Handbook for the Amateur and the Professional

Making Stained Glass

Robert and Gertrude Metcalf

Published by David and Charles: Newton Abbot, 1972

ISBN: 0 7153 5494 9

• English
• Hardback, 158 pages
  
• Illustrations in black and white with a few colour plates
• 22.5 x 28.5 cm
• Condition: good/fair, some scuffing and tears on dust cover and pencil notes on end papers

This book is directed to anyone wanting to work in stained glass. Basing their book on long studio practice, the authors, both experts in the design and execution of stained glass, show how the amateur and the experienced artist alike can learn to duplicate the jewel-like appearance of medieval stained glass. Following a description of the traditional methods of glassmaking, they fully explain the modern methods and techniques that make it possible to produce work with stained glass in an almost infinite variety of colours. The discussions of innovations in the three dimensional use of stained glass such as dalle-de-verre or slab glass, appliqued and laminated glass, and glass sculpture show that stained glass is not a lost art but a vital and exciting contemporary medium.

The book is divided into four sections: the origin and history of stained glass; a comprehensive list of materials and tools to be bought or made; how to set up one's own shop and advice on safety precautions; and finally, the student is guided in working his own designs into the glass in a series of projects of increasing complexity, in which every step of the creative process is carefully explained. The artist is thus provided with an excellent background in all phases of stained glass making and invaluable practical experience for future work.

This is a second-hand book. All proceeds go directly to supporting the only museum of stained glass in the UK.

To find out more please visit www.stainedglassmuseum.com