How to Buy Glass for Stained-Glass Patterns

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"So where do you get this glass? One thing about glass that is sold for stained glass art is that it is all generally a uniform thickness. I mean that is not completely true, even in the five pieces of glass that I have on the table there is variation but you know it looks like it is about, you know, about an eighth of an inch thick give or take you know a few sixteenths, so you know you are not using really, really thick heavy glass. If you need to make a heavier window or heavier panel you can always make a stained glass piece out of thin glass like this and then when it is done if it is really flat you can sandwich it between two panes of glass, you know clear glass and then make a much thicker piece if you want to, but where do we get this glass. Well obviously either stained glass supply houses you can go to that specialize in all kinds of, you know, just the glass itself and different equipment and supplies that you need. But, and even a lot of larger kind of craft and hobby stores will have some selection of stained glass. You will find that different pieces have different prices and the prices are usually reflective of a couple of things, one is often kind of how strong and how bright and intense the colors are, and the other just has to do with where that glass come from. I mean comes from, some glass that comes from Europe is obviously going to be more expensive because of shipping and some of that glass is called antique glass, even if it is modern glass it will still be called antique glass. But you know, like I, I actually still have the price tags on some of these, this piece was about six dollars for a piece like this, it’s about a, it's about, you know, about a square foot and you will find that a lot of times this glass is sold by the square foot or the half square foot, this piece was about nine dollars. There is pieces that you can get that will be fifteen or twenty dollars per square foot, maybe even more than that, depending on how complex the glass is and how rare it is and where it comes from. But uh, yeah, just look in your phone book and find a stained glass supply house and if not you can just try kind of your large local sort of art and craft hobby center type of, type of business. "