This book offers creative ways to transform plain glass bowls,
vases, mirrors, picture frames, plant pots and other home
accessories. You can use the timeless craft skills of painting
glass, stained-glass construction and glass mosaic to produce
traditional and contemporary objects to decorate your home. You can
paint small decorative motifs to champagne glasses, paint bold,
abstract designs on an unusual window hanging, or 'etch' a design
into a glass vase. You can make a trinket box or a decorative
planter using easy-to-follow techniques of cutting glass and
soldering, reproduce the effect of stained-glass windows with
self-adhesive lead, or learn the art of mosaic using glass tesserae
to decorate plant pots, lantems and a tabletop. Working creatively
with glass is a skill that anyone can learn and the range of
specialist craft materials and equipment available is increasing,
helping to make light work of traditional crafts. This practical,
highly illustrated book presents over 40 beautiful projects to
create.Using the distinct techniques of painting glass, cutting and
glass construction, stained-glass effects and glass mosaics, each
chapter opens with material and equipment lists as well as pages of
techniques that explain all you need to know to achieve success.
From a Venetian perfume bottle and leaded picture frames to stylish
glass window decorations these projects are sure to inspire.
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