Stained Glass: Techniques & Projects

Bring light and color into your life with professional-looking stained- glass works you've made yourself. Anyone, even a novice, can master this time-honored art form using the modern materials and techniques presented here. Detailed and extensive instructions, as well as 100 glorious color photographs and 85 black-and-white illustrations, show you how to make a variety of vibrant and stylish projects--not just decorative glazing for doors and windows, sun catchers, or other two-dimensional knick-knacks, but brilliant, gleaming Tiffany-style lampshades, terrariums, display boxes, bowls, screens, and Art Nouveau mirrors. Lessons on the qualities of different types of glass, cutting glass, painting on glass, assembling the pieces, using solder, and vital safety precautions give you the confidence and experience to create striking stained- glass art throughout your home and make this introduction to stained glass a classic you will treasure for years to come. 8 1/4 X 10 3/4. All in