Customer Reviews

Tiffany Stained Glass Windows: in Full-Color (Post) Cards: 24 Cards (Dover Postcards)

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3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
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It isn't at first apparent from the listing that this is a book of postcards. I found it very valuable because I also bought Eaton's "Tiffany Windows: Stained Glass Pattern Book". Although colored examples were given for them, the Tiffany designs are complicated. 15 or 16 of the postcards were duplicate designs that were in the Eaton book. I use the images for computer application and they helped me a lot to choose the right colors.

This is a companion book, as it's glossy postcards. I spent an afternoon at my local frame shop & framed 6 of the cards, they are very attractive as smaller framed images. The images are sharp (although small) & the colors seem to be pretty true to what the windows would actually look like. I'm pleased with the results of my afternoon & glad I had a chance to read the previous review to know these were postcards.

Was looking for good color photos of some of Tiffany's work. This book did not disappoint. The illustrations here have excellent detail that I didn't see for some of the works published elsewhere.

Disappointing product for me. I wanted postcards to mail, but these are stuck together, leaving perforations when torn apart like paper torn from a spiral-bound notebook. The pictures are nice, though, if you're good at trimming edges. So, 2.5 stars for these.

The printing on these is beautiful. The colors are bright and the black border really sets them up nicely. I can see how these would be lovely framed and up on your wall. I'm sure they're also great for various other arts and crafts.

However ...

I purchased these thinking that they were postcards and I intended to use them as such. Despite the lovely images these do not work well as such. They must be torn from pages in the book. Each page has 4 cards that are attached together by perforations. This leaves two sides of your card with a very unattractive white torn paper "fluff" that you're going to need to cut off. Also the weight of the paper is pretty weak. I worried about sending them as regular postcards so ended up putting them in envelopes and sending them like they were regular letters.

So if you're looking to use these for crafts or framing, I give it 4 stars! If you're looking to use them as postcards ... try a different product.