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<li>Step-by-step lessons for a variety of projects This highly detailed guide contains everything the beginner needs to know to make beautiful basic stained glass projects--presented with lavish color illustrations and precise instructions that eliminate the guesswork from each step-by-step activity. Expert techniques and tips for cutting and polishing glass, tracing patterns, soldering, and more are explained with the beginner in mind. 
Included is an indispensable section on tools and materials used to make each of the pieces--from classic flat-panel creations to a Tiffany-style lamp. Other topics: setting up a good workspace, safety guidelines, and project variations.
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Basic Stained Glass Making: All the Skills and Tools You Need to Get Started (How To Basics) [Paperback] Eric Ebeling; Michael Johnston and Alan Wycheck

Arts & Photography

Eric Ebeling

Alan Wycheck

Michael Johnston

History & Criticism

Delphi Glass

Take the next steps in painting with fire! This follow-up to the award-winning Torch-Fired Enamel Jewelry combines the beauty (and ease!) of torch-firing enamel with creative jewelry and metalsmithing techniques. Following a thorough review of the basics of torch-firing and all-new information on building and layering color, you'll make: • stunning necklaces, like the Bandaged Heart, featuring a copper and mesh heart, soldered and adorned with liquid enamel • fun and funky earrings, like the harlequin decaled I'm Distressed earrings • and cool bracelets, like the Up-Cycled Daisy, which features transparent brass enameling, recycled components, and much, much more! Mastering Torch-Fired Enamel Jewelry includes: • 50+ techniques for enameling, metalsmithing, beading and wireworking • 17 step-by-step projects, including necklaces, earrings and bracelets • 15+ new color "recipes," plus advice for layering enamels, and a contributor gallery highlighting the possibilities for working with specific color concepts Let Mastering Torch-Fired Enamel Jewelry ignite your passion for jewelry!

Mastering Torch-Fired Enamel Jewelry: The Next Steps in Painting with Fire by...

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Lewis, Barbara

Crafts & Hobbies

"Best In Show" offers stained glass artists a beautiful array of patterns for purebred dogs in a variety of poses - from portraits to panels, classic to playful. The book features 35 patterns representing all seven AKC groups. Patterns are available for every level of expertise.

Best in Show!: Purebed Dogs in Glass [Paperback] by Anderson, Robin

Anderson, Robin

What's cuter than a bouncy, cuddly puppy? A portrait of that puppy in stained glass! Best in Show: Puppy Class captures 28 purebred puppies in poses ranging from portraits to play, with patterns designed for glass artists of all levels of expertise.

Best in Show: Puppy Class [Paperback] by Anderson, Robin L.

Anderson, Robin L.

Cats fascinate us in everything they do. Whether they're hunting, playing, stalking, sleeping, or just staring out the window, they do it with style! And now stained glass artist Robin Anderson has captured the many facets of a cat's life in "It's a Cat's Life!" -- a stunning new collection of stained glass patterns. Now, you can create panels of cats doing what cats do best -- sleeping, bathing, playing, and, yes, staring out the window. This book offers 30 vivid, detailed, and most of all, realistic patterns of cats and kittens, featuring a variety of breeds and colorings. Celebrate the cat -- and the cat lover in you -- with "It's a Cat's Life!"

It's a Cat's Life! [Paperback] by Anderson, Robin

Master the craft of glass art in your own home studio!
The Glass Artist’s Studio Handbook is a robust review of three popular glass art styles—stained glass, fusing, and lampworking—that brings learning new skills and making glass art within everyone’s reach. With the right tools, classic techniques, and several “teaching projects,” you will soon be making beautiful glass art at home.
Artist Cecilia Cohen walks you through planning your work space, selecting tools and materials, mastering basic glasswork techniques, and applying your new skills to original pieces. In addition, The Glass Artist’s Studio Handbook encourages good organization, unique and inspired design, and eco-friendly practices, ensuring it will remain an invaluable resource for artists.
The Glass Artist’s Studio Handbook:
- Invites you into the studios of 18 glass artists from around the world
- Teaches fundamental glass-art techniques—cutting glass, soldering, flameworking, kilnwork, and more—in full-color photographs
- Illustrates the steps for crafting beautiful pieces of glass art, including suncatchers, jewelry, boxes, beads, and a kaleidoscope
Whether you are new to the art and want to set up your first studio and learn the basics, or an experienced artist looking to expand your repertoire and stimulate your creativity with advanced projects, The Glass Artist’s Studio Handbook is for you.

The Glass Artist's Studio Handbook: Traditional and Contemporary Techniques f...

Cohen, Cecilia

Experience metal clay like never before. Going far beyond most other metal clay books currently available, Metal Clay for Jewelry Makers covers basics and much more. Inside, you'll explore a range of techniques including forming hinges and beads; working with paper clay; adding gemstones, glass, and ceramics; and syringing, burnishing, texturing, and using patinas. You'll discover stunningly showcased silver and base metal clays perfected in soft clay, paper, and paste forms. Sue also covers the materials that are often used in conjunction with metal clay, including embellishments, stones, and findings. After covering materials, Sue dives right into techniques, from the basics to specific advanced techniques. She explores the use of additional materials as well--applying resin, mounting stones, enameling, engraving and more. A section on zero waste--how to conserve and reuse expensive metal clay remnants--completes the how-to section. Packed with more than 500 photographs, this book will give you a clear guide to both the process and end product or effect. While no projects are in the book, finished projects with tips and techniques are spread throughout and provide inspiration for you to explore metal clay and to use your newfound jewelry-making skills with this innovative material, often dubbed "magical clay."

Metal Clay for Jewelry Makers: The Complete Technique Guide by Heaser, Sue

Heaser, Sue

Graphic Design

“This thorough guide to techniques, tools, and materials is filled with expert tips and tricks. The detailed project instructions will inspire you to make your own mosaicked mark on the landscape.” —Lorene Edwards Forkner, author of Handmade Garden Projects In Mosaic Garden Projects, artist Mark Brody walks step-by-step through the creation of 25 decorative yet functional projects. With simple ideas like address signs and stepping stones to more complex projects such as an orb fountain, Brody also includes with a primer on the fundamentals of mosaic and information on the range of possible materials. Project templates are included along with instructions on how to scale each project. Mosaic Garden Projects is packed with inspiration that will brighten the garden all year long.

Mosaic Garden Projects: Add Color to Your Garden with Tables, Fountains, Bird...

Brody, Mark

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