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This article will explain how to apply glass frit to a lampwork glass bead. It would best serve those who have basic skills creating a lampwork glass bead.

Mirrors are made of chemicals which form to make liquid silver, which can then be painted on to a piece of glass to make a common mirror. This chemical process can be complicated and dangerous....

Frosted glass ornaments are more fragile than clear glass ornaments because the surface can be easily scratched, stained or chipped off leaving the ornament ruined. Sometimes frosted ornaments...

The daguerreotype is an early photograph (1840 to 1855+) in which vapors of iodine, later bromine and chlorine, were used to deposit silver halide particles onto a surface of polished silver. The...

Art glass comes in many different forms. It is used primarily for ornamental and artistic display purposes. Often found in vases and costume jewelry, art glass is widely available from craft...

Color Magic products are a line of stains that can be painted onto a variety of surfaces for craft and decorative purposes. They come in several varieties and textures, including opal,...

Mosaic art can be seen in art history dating back more than 4,000 years. Artwork from this time period included pebbles and various colored stones making up simple patterns of color. Tesserae--or...

I like candles but I don’t like to spend all my money on them so one day I was planning around with my candles and I found a way to make a candle from my other candles it was very simple and the...

There are several craft activities that you can do with glass balls. Glass balls come in several sizes. Some are more familiar than others, like marbles and Christmas ornaments. Crafting with...

This technique works with tight curves. These are pieces of glass where the curve is radical enough that the tips of the glass break off using conventional methods.

When we have a window with a lot of straight lines, we use a t-square cutter to cut perfectly straight lines. When windows have no curved lines, we often build the windows without needing poster...

To learn to cut stained glass, it's helpful to begin with the proper tools. We start with a good quality glass cutter.

There was a panel that we built which had a weakness in a long thin section. We built several of them and they would sometimes crack at the thin point of the glass. So to keep that from happening...

We get requests for instructions on how to install glass quite often. It sometimes presents us with a dilemma, because as you're doing an install, it's often difficult to stop and take pictures....

When we worked on a recent project of four transom windows for Kent Walker, one of our favorite architects, we wondered if we could paint leaves on some of the big panels. This would allow us to...

We've been working the whole year on planning for the candy windows that the Provo Arts Council sponsors each year at Christmas time. I was in charge of getting a globe for the moon in our...

Once, I left a window to be cleaned for over a month. It was made with clear artique glass, so all imperfections showed up and the flux that had sat on the panel left the glass looking cloudy...

We use many chemicals in the stained glass studio. It's sometimes helpful to review how they are best used and when they should be used. This helps us achieve better (and safer) results.

Sand-blasting stained glass requires as much pre-planning as any other stained glass project. Select your glass and your pattern before starting.

We sometimes find it useful to put 1/8" "U" zinc around a panel. It can be used as a permanent frame on panels where the gap between pieces of glass on the edge are less than...

This is an edge panel that went with two other windows. You can see the entire piece installed by going to http://www.gommstudios.com/stained-glass-gallery1/bailyhour/bailyhour.htm The top edge...

We try to encourage designs that are not only beautiful, but practical as well. Occasionally a client wants something that challenges us and we need to add additional reinforcing to strengthen the...

We recommend that windows which exceed 3' by 4' in size be reinforced to prevent breakage. If a window is 3' by 3', it might not need to be reinforced, that's usually a judgment call based on...

To cut a window without using a pattern will save you a good deal of time if the design is fairly simple.

When creating stained glass, it comes in handy to be able to use tools to cut multiple pieces so they are uniform each time. It's quite easy to create a jig for cutting beveled stained glass, and...

This panel was built to fit an existing opening, but when we arrived to install the glass, some additional framing had been added, so the panel no longer fit. To solve the problem, I first...

I felt like a transom window I was building was wrong, but each time I checked the measurements we took, they were right on. When we showed up to deliver the windows, it was obvious that it was...

When we work with Candace, a designer of note in Salt Lake City, she loves to have us build windows with "French" diamonds. In another article we showed how to cut the glass in that...

When building French style windows, we need to cut many diamond shaped pieces and it would be tedious to draw around a pattern piece for each one. So we came up with a system for cutting them...

Last month we showed how to repair an Art Glass window. To see the article go to July-Repair. Now that our pieces are cut and foiled, we're ready to solder them into the window. But there's an...

Recently a friend's little boy got excited chasing the cat and we ended up with some damage to one of our "Women Of Faith" panels. All but one of the sky pieces were broken and all but...

Our studio repaired this window before and when the owner of the panel hung it up, she still didn't use all the rings that were designed to hold it, so we decided to add additional reinforcement...

We left to do an install, but even before we got there, we realized that the 5' by 4' panel we were carrying had slipped off the rack on our trailer and had been broken.

When a window arrived at a clients address, with a slight crack in the border glass, we were very glad that we had built the crate to specifications. The insurance on the parcel was more than...

There is a time when we need to ship several panels and a little more weight in one crate costs a lot less than shipping several different crates.

To ship a piece of glass, it needs to be crated and well protected. We build a crate around every piece of glass which we ship. It needs to be a custom fit so that the glass can be adequately...

We all want our guests to be comfortable at our parties. Why not allow them to choose their own drinking glass, adding a conversation piece and icebreaker? This will start your guests talking and...

Murano is an Italian island in a lagoon off the coast of Venice. Since the 13th century, the island has been synonymous with furnaces and master glass artists who produce some of the finest...

Glass dobs can be obtained from leftover art projects, junkyards or glass blowers. They are usually given away for free, and can be used to create beautiful stained glass projects. If you have...

Located just a few miles off the coast of Venice, Italy, the island of Murano has been a center for glassmaking for longer than any other place in the world. For nearly a thousand years, the...

Once regarded simply as advertising, neon lighting is now considered to be both promotion and art. Neon emerged as the lighting medium of choice during the 1930s through the 1950s, as...

Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848--1933) was an American artist and interior designer. In the 1890s he started creating stained glass. He opened his own glass foundry when he was unable to find the...

Fused glass dates back thousands of years, and has evolved as the material and methods for creating it have changed. It is a beautiful glass that is often used in decorative applications.

Cutting glass with a diagram is more difficult than just cutting wavy or oval glass, because you have to follow exact lines and keep them straight. It requires extreme precision and patience. Also...

Glass etching is the easiest way to dress up a plain piece of glass but have you ever wanted to add a little depth or decoration to a mirror. Glass etching on a mirror is a great way to dress up...

Cutting thick wavy glass can be difficult and should only be done by someone who has some experience in that area, as well as the proper safety supplies. It requires a couple of supplies, and can...

Pulling a monotype as a design media requires pressing paper to painted glass. Pull a monotype with tips from an artist in this free design video.

Always wear a mask to protect the lungs when mixing dry grout. Learn how to mix dry grout for stained glass mosaic projects such as mosaic picture frames in this free video.

Sleeking takes five minutes from the time the grout is mixed. Learn how to grout stained glass for mosaic projects such as mosaic picture frames in this free video.

Make sure grout is dry before cleaning grout off glass mosaic projects. Learn how to clean grout off stained glass mosaics such as mosaic picture frames in this free video.