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Good Stained-Glass Design vs. Bad Stained-Glass Design

This is one thing you particularly need

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And it’s going to get full

Since your window lasts for centuries, you mustn’t fail on glass.

And that’s the point of paper.

But paper has its limitations

In particular, paper reflects light (whereas glass transmits it).

So for me it’s a bad sign when a client falls in love with a design:

  • I don’t want a design that’s beautiful-in-itself …
  • I do want a design that’s adequate for the journey.

This often means a lot of waste.

A lot of wasted paper

So, again for me, this is one sight which helps me understand whether someone is likely – in the end, after a lot of hard work and heartache – to prepare a good design.

This is it:

A full paper-bin

A full paper-bin

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Strengthening Your Stained-Glass Windows

Why I prefer shaped bars to straight ones, even though they're not as strong

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Stained glass shaped reinforcement bars

Shaped reinforcement bars

I don’t see the point in spending weeks on a design only for the reinforcement bars to spoil the finished window.

Granted: shaped bars are not as strong as straight ones.

Our answer is to add a few more by way of compensation. After all, you barely see them.

So we use straight bars where sections sit on top of one another, shaped bars within a section: the best of both worlds.