Stained glass windows do it yourself

The manufacture of real stained glass requires painstaking work and professional skills. Standing such stained glass windows are very expensive, and they are not always possible to make them at home. According to classical technology, figurine cut-out multicolored pieces of glass are stacked in a openwork frame from brass or lead. Tiffany method - each element of the mosaic ends along the contour of the copper foil and soldes into the monolithic canvas.

There are several ways to create stained glass on glass with their own hands with minimal material costs and do not require special skill. For the filling method, aluminum wire and stained glass paint will be required. It is even easier to make a stained glass with sticking of a translucent self-adhesive film.

Stained-glass windows on the windows overlooking the south side especially spectacularly. Sunlight favorably exhibits a composite column range of stained glass.

Sketch and preparatory work to create stained glass

1. To create a sketch of a stained glass window, a photo can be found on the Internet, a leaf of millimeter paper or tanks will be required. An ornamental drawing of the future stained glass is applied on paper with a thin pencil.
2. Choose suitable to your taste and harmoniously inscribed in the interior of the stained glass pattern. It can be a geometric pattern, flowers, ornaments from birds or insects. Spaciousness for fantasy is unlimited. Do not forget to mark the colors on the paper template.
3. An ornamental lattice can be made of an aluminum wire of at least 1.6 mm thick or special lead tape on self-adhesive basis. Such a tape is produced in various thickness and happens tinted under the color of copper, brass or gray lead.

Get a special palette of stained glass or aniline paints. For the second option, a set of multi-colored self-adhesive film is bought.

Production of contour stained-glass lade lattice

For contour, an aluminum wire is used, a lead ribbon on a sticky-based or embossed paint for stained glass.

1. The processed sheet of glass is located on the horizontal surface and degreases with acetone. According to the pattern of the ornament with the help of round-rolls from aluminum wire, the separation contours are strung out. The curved wire is beaten a little hammer to give a greater plane and reliable adjuncing to the glass surface.
2. Under the glass sheet is put in the sketch of the stained glass in a natural value. The wire is abundantly lubricated with PVA glue, it is adjusted along the contours of the pattern and pressed by cargo. Before gluing the wire, you can paint gold, bronze or, under the color of copper, acrylic paint.
3. The lead ribbon on a self-adhesive basis is strung out and pressed against the glass on the spot, focusing on the contours of the stained glass sketch under the glass. Then the ribbon is rolled with a rubber roller.
4. Also for the contour you can use a special embossed paint. Tubes with such paint are equipped with nozzles of various diameters, during the pad it does not sprawl and freezes with a flat side.

Stained glass manufacturing process by bulk method

This method is good in cases where the processed glass canvas can be arranged strictly horizontally.

1. Prepare for aniline paints. Dry paints are bred by distilled water, stirred and carefully filtered through the gauze. Then mixed with PVA emulsion to cream consistency. In this form, the paint is well superimposed on the glass cloth and hold well on it.
2. To test the saturation of the tone, the paint layer is applied to a piece of glass and is left to delighted. Brightened tone by adding an emulsion, and is saturated with a pigment dye diluted in distilled water.
3. The solution of paints is applied from the edge of the contour to the middle of the fragment. By adding new paint strokes with a brush, follow the layer thickness. The saturation of the stained glass pattern depends on this. After applying the first layer, it is time for complete polymerization, then the following layers are applied until the desired saturation is reached.
4. By covering the desired stained glass sections in one color, the brush is thoroughly washed, degreases and rubs dry. Califting the next ring is made after drying the neighboring sites to prevent the spills and mixing the paints of different colors.
5. Fully rich stained glass is covered with transparent varnish. Varnish additionally clips the scattered stained glass elements and give the linen shine. A rubber sealer passes around the perimeter of the window or door opening. When installing stained glass in the opening, the rubber sealer will smooth irregularity and will provide a dense adjacent to the frame.

Application technique of self-adhesive film

The bulk method is not suitable for installed windows. Make the stained glass window of the plastic window can be applined. This is the easiest way to make stained-shop do it yourself.

To work with the film you will need:

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

Stained steel applix process:

1. Window glass is thoroughly clean and degreases. Can be deguted with acetone or alcoholic solution. In the sketch of the natural size, stained glass details are cut out of a multi-colored film.
2. To the reverse side of the glass on a double tape mounted sketch of a stained glass pattern. The lead ribbon is glued over the abis of contour lines and rolled the rubber roller.
3. Intercourse space is neatly filled with colored parts from adhesive film cutting along a pattern and smoothed with a rubber roller. The details are pasted carefully, along the way smoothing and kicking air bubbles. Small air bubbles formed under the film are eliminated by the bunch of their needle and smoothing the roller. Details are made with a slight tolerance along the contour and are adjusted by trimming with a knife at the place.
4. This procedure can be made from the back side of the glass. In this case, light bandwidth will decrease. Bilateral stained glass windows are recommended to be installed on the south side of the room.