{"id":12085,"date":"2012-10-24T06:18:03","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T11:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=12085"},"modified":"2012-10-23T14:19:18","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T19:19:18","slug":"book-report-the-stained-glass-handbook-edited-by-viv-foster-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/24\/book-report-the-stained-glass-handbook-edited-by-viv-foster-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: The Stained Glass Handbook<\/i> edited by Viv Foster (2006)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Book<\/a>This book<\/a> really is a handbook instead of a little crafting book. It starts out like a craft book, with a brief history of the art of working with glass, then moves into the tools used with making stained glass windows or painted glass art, and then it goes into a couple of projects with both stained glass and painted glass. Then<\/em> it goes into a rich and detailed history of glass artistry from the medieval period all the way to the present, with the rises and fall of different techniques (and technologies), and it includes a couple of profiles of individual artists in their eras.<\/p>\n

A fascinating introduction that gives you an idea of how to do it and a history of it. Academic and practical.<\/p>\n

But not that tempting to me; I probably won’t do much in the way of stained glass in my lifetime (although painted glass apparently has proved to be something I tut-tutted when I read the books on it and then something I tried with mixed results).<\/p>\n

On the other hand, I still maintain the lack of urge to do sand art<\/a>. So it’s fifty-fifty at this point whether my home’s next transom will be a Noggle original. Okay, way less than that. But fifty-fifty that I would be crazy enough to try a transom.<\/p>\n

Books mentioned in this review:<\/b>
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