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| Creative Stained Glass: Modern Designs & Simple Techniques | 
 enlarge | Author: Christine Stevenson
Publisher: Lark Books
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
Buy New: $9.32
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 120980
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 8.4 x 0.4
ISBN: 1600591329
Dewey Decimal Number: 748.50282
EAN: 9781600591327
ASIN: 1600591329
Publication Date: March 1, 2007
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Product Description
From in-a-weekend pieces to intricate designs that take more time, these 27 stained-glass projects shine with light, color, and texture, thanks to the great new glasses on the market today. More than 70 color photos present the techniques, all worked with easy-to-acquire, modern, and efficient tools. Try two methods of cutting, with or without making a pattern. Use overlays, plating, and patinas to color the finish, creatively combine different techniques, and see how to work with brass and copper came. Beginners can start on small glass panels and build the skills to make a flat fan lamp, a mirror suitable for the wall or in a window, and more.
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 One more book for the beginner November 13, 2008
I am teaching myself stained glass--foil method and this was yet one more book to help me master this craft.
Stained Glass Modern Designs and Simple Techniques January 14, 2008
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
Great book for basic instructions and classic simple designs. Highly recommend for reference and tips, very easy to follow with illustrations.
Great for beginners & intermediate November 11, 2007
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
I am a beginner in stained glass & have enjoyed the book very much. I find the technique information very helpful & detailed. The photos are great and give the reader the needed visuals to help you understand well the technique or what the finished product should look like. I am very glad I purchased the book. MC California
Chock full of useful techniques November 3, 2005
60 out of 61 found this review helpful
After I began taking a stained glass class, I ran to the library and the bookstore. My instructor is good, but he's only one opinion. I must have looked at a dozen books, but this is one of the two that I brought home. I'm certainly glad I did.
Like many such books, there are three sections: basic techiques, projects, and a gallery that shows what you can do (but offers no instruction -- just an ooh-ahh opportunity).
The techniques section is among the best I've encountered. In a sense, the info that beginners need is all about the same: the supplies you need, the types of glass available, etc. However, Creative Stained Glass always seems to have just a little more info that do the other books... maybe it's just four paragraphs about the kinds of solder instead of two, but at this point you need all the info you can get.
That first section is 40 pages, which is more than most books devote to the basics. The writing is friendly, too.
In addition, the projects are pretty! I've seen far too many stained glass books in which half the projects are, well, lame. The glass equivalent of a crying clown painted on velvet. The projects are more likely to be leaded rather than to use copper foil; most beginner books seem to choose copper. Each project has about three pages of instruction, plus the patter; my one quibble is that it often doesn't tell you by how much to enlarge the pattern.
I'm not positive I could have learned stained glass wholly from this or any book (this is one area in which a hands-on class makes all the difference), but this one would have given me the most confidence.
Overall, I've gotten the best advice from this book. I'm glad it's in my library. You should probably grab a copy, too.
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