Patterns for FIVE easy-to-build plated copper

foil projects

Top left:  Opportunist, 15 1/4" X 12 1/4", three layers.

Top right: Atlantic Sentinel, 15 1/4" X 12 1/4", three layers.

Center:  Sundown, 13 1/4" X 10 1/4", three layers.

Bottom left: Jenny, 15 1/4" X 12 1/4", two layers.

Bottom right: Penthouse, 13 1/4" X 10 1/4", three layers.

 

INTRODUCTION TO GLASS PLATING

By Barry Z. Masser

 

If you build stained glass windows, but never used layers of glass, you are missing the best results available. The plating technique was perfected by L.C. Tiffany. He used multiple layers of glass to achieve the fantastic effects of shadows, depth, reflections, textures and startling realism in his remarkable glass works. Now you can produce the same drama in your windows - even if you have limited experience.

 

Here are the small panels we use to teach plating. Each one can be completed in a matter of days. And you can easily enlarge the patterns to make bigger windows. These great little windows are two to three layers deep, so even beginning glass crafters can master them. All five projects come with a full-size set of patterns. A 32-page book includes the following information for each panel:

Detailed step-by-step instructions

Glass recommendations

A big color photo of the finished work

 

Only $24.95 plus postage and handling

Students at a recent plating workshop build Atlantic Sentinel, one of the pattern selections offered

in the Introduction to Glass Plating book.

Once the concept of adding pieces to the backside of a primary panel was experienced, the entire

group zipped through the project as if they'd been doing plating for years. Results were outstanding.

More converts to the growing population of platers!

© 2007 Barry Z. Masser, all images, copy and codes