Learn About the Different Types of Stained Glass

Video Transcript

"So another neat thing about stained glass is that really all you are doing is sticking pieces of glass together the way that you want to. There is a lot of creativity that you can explore by using different kinds of glass. For example there is no reason you can’t find an old mirror and cut it up into pieces that kind of get integrated into your design because a mirror is about the same thickness as the glass that we use in stained glass and you can prepare those pieces of mirror with lead cane or with copper foil and integrate little pieces of mirror into your design. You can even, you can buy a type of glass that is called beveled glass, this is generally a clear glass but it has a nice cut bevel to the edges so that is almost looks like little gems, kind of like crystals or diamonds they have kind of a texture to them. I like using these glass, kind of these melted glass marbles and you can get these in all kinds of craft stores. It is important that you do use glass and not plastic or some other material but these are cool, I mean you can incorporate these into your designs as things like, I don’t know the centers of flowers or you can make eyeballs out of them, or I like using them as, kind of these soft white ones, I have used them as bubbles in kind of a aquatic stained glass I did once with kind of a fish and so again if they are made out of glass, anything that is made out of glass, you know if you want to try to integrate it into a stained glass panel you usually can. "