Felting Old Painted Glass
This is a process that I created while working at a Pittsburgh area stained glass company 7 years ago. I haven't heard of any one else doing it, so it's worth a mention. One of the biggest problems with repainting sections of faded paint in an old window is finding glass that will match the original color. This truly can be impossible. Some studios will touch up old painted glass and refire the actual original glass. In this way, the old color sits against the raw glass and the new color on top of that. The new color doesn't stick very well though in this process. So, with a felt wheel used for buffing hand cut bevels I started to buff the old pain off. This gave me a really nice raw surface to work with again. The paint stuck to the glass in a much better way. I have also used this buffing process to remove a thin accidental film of gray wash on clear glass. Clear glass is really tricky to work with if part of the glass is totally unpainted and another has a series of washes and trace lines.
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