Customer Reviews

Stained Glass: Design Sourcebook

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I highly recommend this book for a stained glass artist or anyone seeking to commission a stained glass piece for their home. The glass is painted, etched, & blown to create many stunning & unique effects.

Design themes include marine life, birds, animals, people, floral, religious & abstract. The book is filled with gorgeous color photos with captions for each window listing title, artist, size, & the glass types used.

I fell in love with a screen entitled "Waves" & one featuring sandblasted water nymphs. I also enjoyed another circular piece featuring the tree of life & flame. A huge abstract biblical window took my breath away.

There is a very helpful list of artists in the back. Contact information, pages their artwork is on & the kind of work they do is listed here. I find myself constantly looking to this book for inspiration & ideas.

I find it hard to believe that anyone found this book inspirational, insightful or instructional. I was looking for more design information and insight, and the description of this book represented it as such. The book jacket states "practical advice on design and technique". What little there is I found of no value. It also states "informed commentary". Again, I did not find any of the author's comments that accompany the pictures insightful or informed. They are minimally descriptive at best. The majority of artists are from the UK and not representative of wide variety of design. This book is out of print and I can understand why. I found it used at a lower rate and still feel that I wasted my money. There are many other books out there that have truly lovely and imaginative designs that would be worth imitating and considering for a commission design. These positive and glowing reviews and the book jacket description go beyond deceptive - they are simply untrue. I understand why the "review guidelines" discourage criticizing other reviews listed here. I bought this book based on the reviews I read here and feel they were very misleading and question their authenticity. Buyer beware!

This book is absolutely gorgeous, and it is truly an inspiration to artists in any media, not only in stained glass. The projects are a little ambitious for beginners and hobbyists like me, but the beautiful photographs and ideas give me something to aspire to. An invaluable tool.

I borrowed this book from the library, and now I'm just going to have to buy it. I'm just getting started in stained glass and I must say the work featured in this book is truly inspirational. Buy it and you will look at it over and over again.

Definitely worth getting. This is a book that you will find yourself going back to over and over again. Plenty of fresh and interesting ideas.