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Title: Monart Basket
Post by: Alastair Petrie on April 17, 2006, 06:04:57 AM

Hi,
Thought you might like to see a 9 1/2 Monart basket Norah and I acquired in Perhshire this afternoon.

 http://i3.tinypic.com/vpi9o8.jpg
http://i3.tinypic.com/vpi9o8.jpg
Alastair

Title: Monart Basket
Post by: Alastair Petrie on April 17, 2006, 06:15:41 AM

Hi,
Still new!
Sorry I put in two images the same!
Here is the other, just showing the base.
http://i3.tinypic.com/vpiy69.jpg

Alastair

Title: Monart Basket
Post by: Frank on April 17, 2006, 09:24:24 AM

Hi Alastair, great find! Can you do a shot on a white ground for the catalogue please. I do have a feeling someone submitted one but I have not come across it yet.

I am improving the catalogues now with clickable images and could include a black ground image on the second page. Example http://www.ysartglass.com/Vascat/VasV041.htm - I just noticed that I forgot to include this one on the index page :roll:

Title: Monart Basket
Post by: chopin-liszt on April 17, 2006, 10:49:32 AM

:D:shock::D

For a basket, it's actually ok! (please forgive my philistine attitude).

I once saw a huge Monart basket, it was labelled Jesus Brasso.
I (in my philistine way) thought "jesus brasso" was probably what some poor soul exclaimed when they first saw it!

Title: Monart Basket
Post by: Alastair Petrie on April 17, 2006, 03:25:56 PM

Hi Frank,
Not too good at pure white backgrounds - how do you do yours?

Any way here goes for Monart Basket, shape MH size V:

http://i3.tinypic.com/vq2p7k.jpg

Title: Monart Basket
Post by: Frank on April 17, 2006, 04:24:23 PM

I just use white paper, one sheet A4 to stand it on and another for the background. It does not leave a pure white ground but I can use to adjust the image colours, I got a wide range of colour casts!

To get pure white I cut the image out of the background after adjustments.

Is the 9.5 inches height?

Title: Monart Basket
Post by: Alastair Petrie on April 17, 2006, 05:21:27 PM

Hi Frank,
Yes height is 9.5 inches.
Alastair

Title: Monart Basket
Post by: Alastair Petrie on April 17, 2006, 05:59:06 PM

Hi Frank,
Trying out Coral Draw ro X and used it to cut out. Any better?

http://i3.tinypic.com/vqgx3m.jpg

Alastair

Title: Monart Basket
Post by: Frank on April 17, 2006, 08:07:23 PM

Thanks for the effort Alastair, but not to worry I use Photoshop which does this a lot easier than Corel Draw which I gave up on a year or two ago. Generally you cannot get away with the automatic tools for glass. Monart has its clear outer layer and you need to cut to that line not the colour - the line gets lost when the image is compressed.

The images are great, thank you.

Title: Re: Monart Basket
Post by: Frank on July 21, 2007, 04:16:52 PM

Just for accuracy the correct spelling is Braso NOT Brasso (his son got in touch recently)

 :-[ Just checked the site and find I only corrected 3 occurences... 6 still wrong  :-[