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On behalf of expertvillage.com, my name is Allison at Western Art Glass. In this step I'm going to be showing you how to cut your paper pattern apart and put it on the glass and cut the glass....

So where do you get this glass? One thing about glass that is sold for stained glass art is that it is all generally a uniform thickness. I mean that is not completely true, even in the five pieces of...

Alright, I'm going to cut another one of these curves again just to have my little piece of my pattern up here, use my Sharpie to mark the piece I want. But again, it is going to be hard to...

I'm giving you a brief description today on the different types of glass there are. I would also like to add a little history about the inventor of some of our wonderful art glass that is...

Okay, some of the simplest stained glass designs and probably you know, if you very, if you are starting out with your very first stained glass project you are probably going to want to do a design...

Okay now, one thing to think about when you cut this pattern is the fact that you are going to try and cut the pieces of glass exactly the size of these pieces. And so we are going to cut them apart...

OK, so when you cut curves there is a couple of considerations to have. Very large radius, simple curves, sometimes you can just score them and they will break. You have to kind of get lucky. One...

Now another thing about stained glass is that your final project needs to be, needs to have strength to it and that is to say that it needs to be you know durable and something that will last a long...

Okay, so now I've got my pattern all cut out. Here it is, like a little jig-saw puzzle on the table. I've got it assembled correctly, right, because I numbered it ahead of time. One,...

This right here that I have out is call Streamer glass. It's named such because there are streams of glass, strings of glass that have actually been melted into a sheet of glass and so...