Topic: Stained Glass (Stuff)

[antiquerose123]

Okay Dokey -- leaded lights they shall be.  :kissy:



I still think us Canadians call them stained glass windows here -- as I have never (ever, ever) heard the term leaded lights here.....but us Canadians are  :ho:.    Has to do with the cold winters ...  :24:

[scimiman]

Ah yes what ever happened to our language as it flew over the pond.
Most of the world call them Stained glass windows in the same way that most people go out to buy a new Hoover rather than a new Dyson or someother make.
Its just got wrongly labeled over the years.
Mike

[chopin-liszt]

As to a practical use:-

We have antique leaded glass panels which sit along the base of the front windows of the house. They are very attractive indeed, from both inside and out - but they have the wonderful added advantage of making the windows impossible to see through, from the outside

  - without having to resort to net curtains (shudder).

  But I think I'd use your advertising one as target practice. I detest advertising - especially of this subject - though macdonalds would be worse, I suppose.

[scimiman]

Nice pieces in the windows also pleased to see you still have a decent stereo system with proper speakers and not these baked bean can sized things that make the music sound as though its in a tunnel.
Mike www.abfabglass.co.uk

[chopin-liszt]

 
We belong to the old school of; "If it ain't broken, it don't need fixed or replaced." Mike.
(and quite frequently we just go along with cobbling stuff together to get it to work.  :ooh: )

[scimiman]

Theres nothing wrong with that. My son thinks I'm mad when I get things repaired but its the cheapest route.
I'm not a pain in the backside conservationist because I don't believe allot of their propaganda they put out but I do believe that repairing rather than throwing is the most planet friendly thing you can do.
Here endeth todays lesson.
Mike www.abfabglass.co.uk

[antiquerose123]

Nice pieces in the windows also pleased to see you still have a decent stereo system with proper speakers and not these baked bean can sized things that make the music sound as though its in a tunnel.
Mike www.abfabglass.co.uk

Hear, hear..... :thup:

Nice glass windows there too Chopin-lizst!!  Glass is in our hearts  :love:

[chopin-liszt]

 :hi:
I just thought it would be a nice idea to show you how these panels can be effectively used, Rose - do yours fit any of your windows - in a way that can give you privacy as well as display the glass to it's best?

[Cathy B]

They're all gorgeous, Rose, and I hope you find some way of using them!

Sue, just saw your wave sculpture with pride of place there - it's just gorgeous!

[chopin-liszt]

The Graham Muir Wave Form?

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b227/chopin-liszt/awave.jpg
(and against a plain background)
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b227/chopin-liszt/awave2.jpg

Michael bought me that at The Scottish Glass Society Exhibition (2005, I think)

(I've said before, I may not get b'day and 25th december presents, but when I do get a present, it's a stonker!)

I'm fairly sure it's one of his earliest - he has become somewhat famous for these Wave Forms - they are getting taller and bigger, and look more and more about to topple over as time goes by. They are extremely difficult to make - I'm told nearly 4 out of 5 crack or collapse. He isn't using the graal technique in their bodies any more.

http://grahammuir.co.uk/category/waves/
I'm told there are queues for them.