onable
and Unreasonable--The Chief Difficulty the
Chief Opportunity--But ascertain all Conditions
before starting Work--Business Habits--Order--Accuracy--Setting
out Cartoon Forms--An Artist
must Dream--But Wake--Three Plain Rules 264

CHAPTER XX

A String of Beads 290

APPENDIX I

Some Suggestions as to the Study of Old Glass 308

APPENDIX II

On the Restoring of Ancient Windows 315

APPENDIX III

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Hints for the Curriculum of a Technical School for
Stained Glass--Examples for Painting--Examples
of Drapery--Drawing from Nature--Ornamental
Design 321

NOTES ON THE COLLOTYPE PLATES 327

THE COLLOTYPE PLATES 337

GLOSSARY 369

INDEX 373

PART I

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTORY, AND CONCERNING THE RAW MATERIAL

You are to know that stained glass means pieces of coloured glasses put
together with strips of lead into the form of windows; not a picture
painted on glass with coloured paints.

You know that a beer bottle is blackish, a hock bottle orange-brown, a
soda-water bottle greenish-white--these are the colours of the whole
substance of which they are respectively made.

Break such a bottle, each little bit is still a bit of coloured glass.
So, also, blue is used for poison bottles, deep green and deep red for
certain wine glasses, and, indeed, almost all colours for one purpose or
another.

Now these are the same glass, and coloured in the same way as that used
for church windows.

Such coloured glasses are cut into the shapes of faces, or figures, or
robes, or canopies, or whatever you want and whatever the subject
demands; then features are painted on the faces, folds on the robes, and
so forth--not with colour, merely with brown shading; then, when this
shading has been burnt into the glass in a kiln, the pieces are put
together into a picture by means of grooved strips of lead, into which
they fit.

This book, it is hoped, will set forth plainly how these things are
done, for the benefit of those who do not know;