Free Stained Glass Patterns
One of the most important requirements to making a good stained glass window is having a good pattern to work from. The pattern is different from the sketch. The sketch is the preliminary visual tool to draw out and decide how your window design will look. Once you have a great design, you need to have a way to cut your glass to fit it though. This is where the pattern comes in. You trace or otherwise transfer your drawing onto a nice thick paper. Then you need pattern shears to cut out the individual shapes of glass. Pattern shears are great because they take a tiny sliver out between the pieces. This helps you to make an allowance for lead widths in your glass pattern.
If you'd like to learn more about stained glass patterns, as well as be able to download some for free, we've put together the following resource list. Enjoy!
- Art Glass World has some free stained glass patterns.
- Chantal's Stained Glass has some more to download and try out for free.
- Warner Crivellaro also has a bunch of great patterns.
- Glass Patters Quarterly is a periodical about stained glass pattern-making.
- There are a variety of patterns available fore free at StainedGlassPatterns.com
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Yes but by far is the master of free stained glass patterns online isFree Stained Glass Patterns on the Web.
The Stained Glass Patterns Directory is by far the preferred resource for stained glass patterns on the web. It won't crash your browser. Many sites are searchable from the Directory page itself. The site descriptions are well-written and accurate. The listing is more complete, no site is intentionally left out. Free patterns and patterns for sale are listed, and clearly noted as such.
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