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People are very much in awe of stained
glass. However, making stained glass is really not very
difficult. Projects are sometimes assigned a 'degree of
difficulty' - yet this has nothing to do with the beauty of
a finished project and little to do with the true difficulty.
The simplest designs are often the most elegant and the easiest
to make.
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Over the years, we at AmeriGlas
have found that anyone can learn to make stained glass.
You don't have to be an 'artist', as one might think. Since
stained glass is made from a pattern, it's as simple as following
the lines. And you don't have to be a master craftsman
either. The basic skills that everyone has developed from
everyday life are easily transferred to making stained glass.
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Imagine a picture which has lines
drawn around the major objects - a rose, a tree, the sky, a bird,
or the sun. This picture is cut apart with a pair of scissors,
so that each object is now independent - much like a jig saw
puzzle. Each piece or object is then cut from different
stained glass which would most appropriately depict that object
- maybe swirled green glass for a tree or wispy light blue glass
for the sky. When the glass pieces are assembled according
to the original pattern, it results in a painting of 'glass'.
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One very major misconception by
most people is that the size or really the number of pieces in
a stained glass project makes it increasingly difficult - a stained
glass panel with 10 pieces is easy and one with 100 is difficult.
Wrong! Is it more difficult to walk 100 feet then it is
to walk 10 feet? No, it only takes a little more time.
A sprinter might run 100 feet in just a few seconds while a 100
year old grandmother might take hours - but the end result is
the same. The same is true for stained glass. A larger
project just has more pieces, but it isn't any harder to make
each individual piece. And it isn't hard to reassemble
the large 'jig saw puzzle' since the pieces of the pattern were
'numbered' before it was cut apart!
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Other Sections
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A Brief Summary |
Stained Glass
Selection |
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The Basis Tools |
Cutting the Glass |
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Deciding on a
Project |
Preparation for
Assembly |
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Selecting a Pattern |
Assembly of a
project |
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Preparing the
pattern |
In Conclusion |
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