DOOR AND WINDOW PATTERNS

An excellent book. Some very practical & unique patterns will make this book a classic in years to come. If you make door panels or windows for money, use this as a pattern sampler for your customers. 64 pages with excellent colour pictures along with line drawings. *****

12 designs of star signs, and 1 design of the astrological wheel. Very simple to make, intended as window hangings, Great colour.

An excellent book from the Wardell stable. Printed on glossy art paper, 76 pages of designs in black & white, and colour. Quite a few geometrical designs using customised bevels, which could prove a problem, unless you’re capable of modifying them to suit your requirements. You should be. Mainly medium to large projects. *****

Companion to Windows of Distinction, this is another classy 78 page volume, featuring domestic, ecclesiastical, geometrical window designs. Something for everyone, very nice colour plates. Lots of door panels & skylights. ****

Price: £12.95

Full of ambitious projects, loads of colour, and a nice book to have around. 96 colour photos - 48 drawings, some quite spectacular. Featured in Stained Glass News issue 38. ****

Pattern books bring you business, if you tackle commissions.

Designs & techniques to make gift sized panels with the elegance of a Tiffany window. The book is written and designed by Patrice Lampton, who has a strong connection with Uroboros Glass. ****

Nice book, very commercial designs, long and thin, as the title suggests. Plenty of colour, lots of patterns using bevels, which can be substituted using coloured glass, or glue chip, if you prefer. *****

B206 - STAINED GLASS CORNER ACCENTS

180 designs for entryways, kitchens, dining rooms, screens, room dividers, bedrooms, etc. Useful to give your clients (or, indeed, yourself) ideas. All the House Tour books have a wealth of colour pics.

100 designs, and an introduction to colour & design section. ***

A CAROLYN KYLE PUBLICATION BY YVONNE BARLOG.

48 pages of great designs, all full colour, with duplicate black and white line drawings. A very nice collection of mainly modern, vibrant and practical designs. ****

By Sibbett, and although not in colour, provides a valuable reference for the particular style, mainly for windows.

By Sibbett, and although not in colour, provide a valuable reference for the particular style, mainly for windows.

A very nice collection of patterns associated with that fresh time of the year..SPRING!! Bunny rabbit, butterflies, flowers, ladybirds, etc. Nothing too tricky here, but a nice collection for your library.

14 new patterns with a summery theme. Mainly flowers.

14 designs here with a Wintery slant...birds, ducks, rabbits, all with a snowy theme.

Difficulty level would be intermediate and up, I'd say..

WAS £11.45

NOW £9.16

And, might I say in passing...I've always thought Catherine Zeta Jones was lucky in the first place not to have to dig coal for a living (Join the gang, Tom Jones, Shirley Bassey, and that bird from the Cranberries) "Excuse me.. but she's Irish.. "

Well, ok, but the same thing.

There's no real substitute for Nina Simone on form.

13 very nice designs, mainly for panels. Lots of pieces per projects, featuring toucans, lovebirds, a cockatoo, and several exotic foliages. Intermediate level, I’d say, mostly requiring Uroboros glass to do justice to the colours. ***

Another 12 designs of floral pics. Very nice, and the photography is top notch.

But wait... these are flowers...can't you go stretch your legs and mind and take a few pics of your own with one of those disposable cameras you get free with a McDonaldBurger?

Och, well, maybe not.

Good book of floral things.

Blimey! Will it never end? Art Nouveau has been around for years, since the time of Aubrey Beardsley and his daft drawings. Ok, some of them made it big in poster fashion..but... here we have 13 very nice and unusual designs in the style of Charles Rennie Mackintosh ....(apparently he was known as Daft Chas in the Saracen's Head in Glasgow, and Charlie Chuck in the Dolphins Fin Inn in San Francisco)

A CKE publication.. A treasury of lifelike animal, fish, & wildflower designs to delight the nature lover in us all” it says here. Basic designs for beginners, in fact. **

This is an interesting book with some nice colour pics & ideas. 3 pages of cutting & leading techniques. A handy reference book.

96 Designs in varied styles featuring flowers, of course.

This is a good reference book. 400 non-religious & varied designs.

Over 200 designs/styles/ideas & inspirations for windows.

Colour cover, line drawings inside. A good book, in the style of his previous one Victorian Stained Glass for today.

Contains 48 original designs in the style of Frank Lloyd Wright. Nice clean geometric styles, making the glass cuts very simple.

12 patterns for medium to large window panels, all star signs. Modern designs should appeal to the new generation of Aquarius lovers. Hmmm..

Bill Hillman book, published by CKE. Explains the style, and glass fundamentals of the Art Nouveau era. As well as patterns (mainly line drawings) there are tips on cutting techniques for glass and lead came.

Not a bad book.

Featuring the Leslie Perlis Studio, published by Wardell.

A collection o f glossy pics showing installations, some of which are rather extravagant. This would be a book for the advanced worker, or the ambitious intermediate.

78 pages crammed with pics in colour and black and white. There goes that word again.. "crammed". Don't you just love the thought of a book (or anything, for that matter) landing on your doormat or in your mailbox "crammed" with stuff?

I have a mailbox that says "Please don't cram things in here.. wake me up if it's too big.. even if it's only 12 noon"

High Noon, the film, starring Gary Cooper is one of my all-time favs..which is why I rarely get up before mid-day. :-) Who would, given the choice of facing that mid-day train? Blimey.. could be worse.. could have Nina Simone on there in full force, God bless her.

A variety of contemporary abstract designs.

48 Original designs from Alex Spatz

All line drawings, no colour. There's a strong FLW influence here.

Very little in the way of informative text, but then, it's not really required, is it?

Go to the circus and you expect to see clowns and the odd pony or two - this book is similar in that there are no real surprises, but if you like FLW, then you'll get along fine with this.

(Wheezy Jim from Cambuslang says "Clowns? Ye call them Clowns? Ye should git yersel doon the CIU club ony night o' the week, and ye'll see Clowns ok...)

Eight full sized patterns of American wild flowers are included.

The designs feature accurate representations of popular wild flowers in a variety of styles from traditional to contemporary.

94 Designs featuring, yes, you’ve guessed it, birds

By Jullian Sawyer, so you know it's a good book.Doors, Window panels, Sidelights & Fan lights are all featured here in glorious colour.

These are all commercial, practical designs whcih can be used as they are, or modified to suit yourself.

Bags of inspirational work here.

6 large advanced door panel designs, best to look before you buy. Nice designs, but the chances of one of them being just what you want are fairly remote, I think.

These are the designs of Mark Levy, and span 24 years of original, innovative work. There's a story with each project here, from the first contact with the client.

Excellent photography really sets this book apart from the pack...Designs are mainly modern. Great book.

13 Designs of Autumnal animals/birds, including a great pic of a Kingfisher. Intended as medium size window hangings, or as panels. Great colour pics as usual, suitable for intermediate to advanced.