How to Work with Stained Glass

Series Summary

As you walk into a Christian church, your eyes are immediately drawn to the elaborate patterns and colors of the windows. As the light floods through, images of the legendary and mythical events of Christian history are illuminated in colorful glass. This ancient art form is known as stained glass, and many of these ancient stained glass works have survived for centuries. Throughout its thousand year history, stained glass has been displayed in many different forms and varieties, and has recently undergone a revival among secular artist.

In this free video series, our expert will teach you how to make stained glass stepping stones. Learn how to beautify your garden or walkway with these unique handmade stepping stones. Get step by step instructions for working with stained glass, finding a pattern to use and picking the best stained glass for a stepping stone. You will also learn how to cut and grind the stained glass, set up the stepping stone mold and adding the grout to the mold. In the end you will have created a beautiful and unique stained glass stepping stone that would fit perfectly in any yard or garden!

Video Transcript

"ALLISON KLINGER: Hello, my name is Allison at Western Art Glass in Salt Lake City. I am the owner of the store here. I teach a variety of classes. I carry tons of stained glass, lots of fun stuff. I carry all types of tools, supplies, pattern books. We teach so many classes. Working with glasses is so much fun that once you start it leads to another method, okay? There's beginning stained glass. There is leaded glass. There is stepping stones. There's fused glass, which means it's made in a kiln, and you actually fuse the glass together and create your own glass, make bowls, plates, platters. There's torched beads you can make out of glass. And today, I get to play with foiled glass. I get to play with stepping stone glass. In fact, I get to do whatever I want. So you should get involved. You'll fall in love with it and, either which way, go to your local stained glass store. If you don't have one, look it up in the phonebook under glass, stained and leaded, or look up on the phonebook, glass--or up on the Internet for stained glass. And if you don't have one locally, drive to one. It will all be worth it. So check it out."