Stained glass windows with their hands

Making this stained glass requires hard work and skills.There are such stained glass windows are very expensive, and make them at home is not always possible.According to the classical technology, figuratively cut colored glass pieces stacked in openwork frame of brass or lead.Tiffany method - each element of the mosaic is enclosed in the contour of the copper foil and soldered in a monolithic sheet.

There are several ways to createstained-glass windows on the glass with their hands with minimal material costs and do not require special skills from you.For the filling method need aluminum wire and stained glass paint.Even easier to make a stained glass applying a translucent adhesive film.

particularly impressive look at the stained glass windows, facing south.Sunlight is beneficial exhibits compositional colors of stained glass.

sketch and preparatory work for the creation of stained glass

1. To create a sketch stained glass windows, pictures can be found on the Internet, you require sheet of graph paper or tracing paper.On paper thin pencil applied ornamental stained glass picture of the future.
2. Select a suitable to your taste and fit harmoniously into the interior design of stained glass.This may be a geometric pattern, flowers, ornamental birds, or insects.Plenty of room for imagination is unlimited.Do not forget to mark the color on the paper pattern.
3. ornamental grille can be made of aluminum wire of not less than 1.6 mm thick lead strip or a special self-adhesive base.This tape is available in different thicknesses and can be tinted the color of copper, brass or lead gray.

Purchase a special palette stained or aniline dyes.For the second option - to buy a set of multi-colored self-adhesive film.

Manufacturing contour openwork lattice stained glass

for circuit use aluminum wire, lead tape on the adhesive-based or embossed paint for stained glass.

1. be treated glass sheet is located on a horizontal surface and degreased with acetone.According to the pattern of the ornament using pliers bend of aluminum wire dividing circuits.Curved wire discourage a little hammer to give more reliable plane and abutting the glass surface.
2. under a sheet of glass stained glass sketch is enclosed in full size.Wire liberally smeared with white glue, is adjusted by drawing the contours and pressed down load.Before bonding wire can be painted with gold, bronze, or the color of copper, acrylic paint.
3. Lead adhesive tape on the basis of curved and pressed against the glass in place, focusing on the sketch the outlines of stained glass under glass.Then the tape is rolled with a rubber roller.
4. You can also use a special paint for the relief circuit.Tubes with a paint equipped with nozzles of different diameters, with the patch, it is not spreading evenly and solidifies rim.

process of making stained glass by self-leveling

This method is good in cases where the treated glass sheet can be positioned horizontally.

1. Prepare the aniline dyes.Dry paint divorced distilled water, stir thoroughly and percolates through cheesecloth.Then mixed with PVA emulsion to cream consistency.This paints a good stacked on a glass fabric and good hold on it.
2. To test tone saturation, apply a coat of paint on a piece of glass and left to drying.It brightens the tone of the addition of the emulsion, and is saturated in distilled water diluted pigments.
3. solution paints applied on the contour edge of the middle of the track.By adding a new paint brush strokes, make sure the layer thickness.On this depends the richness of stained-glass paintings.After the first layer is given time to complete polymerization, and then deposited the following layers until the desired saturation.
4. Covering one color desired areas of stained glass, brush thoroughly washed, degreased and wiped dry.Infusion of the following color schemes carried out after drying the neighboring areas to prevent sagging and mixing inks of different colors.
5. permanently dry stained glass coated with transparent varnish.Nail further grappled disparate elements of stained glass and give the web shine.Along the perimeter of the window or doorway glued rubber seal.When installing the stained glass in the opening rubber seal smooth out the bumps and provide a dense adjacency to the frame.

applicator technique of stained glass from the self-adhesive film

The filling method is not suitable for windows installed.To produce plastic stained-glass windows can be application method.This is the easiest way to do stained glass window with his hands.

to work with the film needed:

• mounting a knife and scissors;
• rubber roller;
• marker and pencil;
• degreaser;
• set of colored self-adhesive film.

process of stained glass applique film:

1. Window glass is thoroughly cleaned and degreased.Clean can be acetone or alcohol solution.In the sketch of a life-size cut out of colored stained parts of the film.
2. to the reverse side of glass on double sticky tape attached sketch stained image.According to the outline contour lines pasted lead tape and rolled with a rubber roller.
3. Mezhkonturnoe space is filled with neatly cut out the pattern of the colored adhesive film details and smoother squeegee.Glued parts carefully, simultaneously smoothing and expelling air bubbles.Small air bubbles are formed under the film, remove the needle and puncture their smoothing roller.Details are made with a small tolerance of the contour and adjusted by trimming knife in place.
4. similar procedure can be carried out and on the back side of the glass.In this case, the light will decrease the bandwidth.Bilateral stained-glass windows is recommended to be installed on the south side of the room.