Customer Reviews

Victorian Stained Glass Pattern Book (Dover Stained Glass Instruction)

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This book has a relatively good coverage of Victorian era designs. The patterns are large, so photocopy and enlargment is easy and clear. Designs are also relatively simple (I would consider this book for the advanced beginner or intermediate). There are few very intricate patterns traditional of the richest stained glass panels, but you surely have a lot of very nice patterns for your home.

This is an alright book for absolute beginners, but not up to the standard of the many other books available. I would recommend 390 Traditional Stained glass designs by Hywel Harris as a much better choice.

The first step to my using Mr. Sibbett's designs is to scan them. He provides clearly defined, good quality images that scan well at high resolution. The quality of images is not always apparent to the naked eye. The images are large enough to duplicate well without loosing detail. For my purposes the max of three images a page at most works well. Other books may have more patterns but they loose quality when made larger.