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Hereford Saga

Stained Glass Plating – Is is really Poor Craftsmanship?

by Stephen Byrne on February 15, 2010

“Plating” is the leading up of two or more glasses of the same shape, one behind the other.
E. Liddall Armitage comments thus:
“Some artists resort to plating and even tend to boast about it, but it is best avoided” (Stained Glass, Leonard Hill Books Limited, London, 1960, p. 130).

He presents two arguments. First, that it is [...]

The Hereford Saga Part 2: The Owl and the Brief

by Stephen Byrne on December 13, 2008

First-time visitors, click here to start at the beginning of this bizarre tale of stained glass design …
It was P.R. Exec. #1 who broke the silence: “Where did you say that this new stained glass window was going?”

Are you new here? Well, for the story so far, you must click here!

Our Public Relations team looked shocked. Anyone would have thought that we’d dismissed them and moved to a different Agency.
Or (much the same thing) that a particularly terrifying prophecy in the Book of Revelation had come to pass.
What on earth had we done?
I checked [...]