Learn to make dozens of unique gifts packaged perfectly in glass jars of various shapes and sizes. Do you have an aspiring gardener on your list? Make a plant bomb” jar with your favorite flower seeds or an adorable terrarium featuring easy-to-grow air plants. Headed to a bridal shower? Pamper your friend with a manicure kit or mint mojito lip scrub. Who wouldn’t love some homemade sugar cookie mix or healthy and delicious granola in an attractive and reusable jar? Glass jars are easy to come...
Декорирование Свечи, бутылки, бокалы (Hand Made)
by and Vera Preobrazhenskaya
Once given as a premium for purchasing a product or given as a gift for buying a movie ticket during the harsh years of the Depression, this colored glassware of green, yellow, pink, blue, and other hues is now avidly collected by countless Americans. Recently hailed as one of the top collectibles sought on the Internet, Depression Glass has attracted the interest of many young enthusiasts. From Adam to Windsor, readers of this book will soon become familiar with these pattern names as well as g...
Best known as a decorative glassmaker of the 1920s and 30s, Rene Lalique was a multi-talented craftsman who began his career as a goldsmith and went on to become a leading exponent of Art Deco. His versatility is revealed in this book which shows how he was equally at home designing delicate jewellery or mass-produced scent bottles, as he was lift doors or windows for the French railways. It looks at all aspects of his art, from his innovative techniques like "cire perdue" and use of new materia...
Behind the Scenes of Tiffany Glass Making
by Martin Eidelberg and Nancy McClelland
Everyone knows the beauty and value of Tiffany glass lamps; vases and windows. But few know that the masterful pieces from the Tiffany Studios would not have been possible without Arthur Nash, developer of the now-priceless Favrile glass, and his son Leslie, director of the studio's division of glassmaking, pottery and enamel. Leslie's memoirs, with notes and references, tell the unfiltered and refreshing story of the studio's heyday and substantially expand reader's knowledge of Favrile glass w...
Die Schaffhauser Glasmalerei Des 16. Bis 18. Jahrhunderts
by Rolf Hasler
Glasgemalde aus der fruhen Neuzeit befinden sich im Kanton Schaffhausen kaum mehr an ihren ursprunglichen Bestimmungsorten. Dank den intensiven Bemuhungen von Schaffhauser Burgern und Institutionen konnte uber die letzten 150 Jahre aber ein ansehnlicher Bestand an historischen Glasgemalden fur die dortigen Sammlungen gesichert werden. Diese in der vorliegenden Publikation erstmals vollstandig erfassten, durchweg farbig abgebildeten 194 Werke vermitteln ein anschauliches Bild vom Reichtum der ein...
French Cistercian Grisaille Glass (Outstanding Dissertations in the Fine Arts S.)
by Helen Jackson Zakin
Basic skills from an expert14 projects with patterns providedFull-color, step-by-step photographsReverse glass painting, as demonstrated in this book, involves creating a traditional primitive picture on a piece of glass in a way that the finished image can be viewed on the opposite side of the glass. Here award-winning painter Anne Dimock provides advice on the tools and materials needed to get started, tips on creating a variety of painting effects, techniques on using stencils for borders, gu...