“Music Notes, Lady Slipper Flowers, Cross” New Window – Willowdale Church at Sunnybrook Farm Museum Red Deer Alberta

Filed under New Windows by on November 23, 2025 at 4:00 pm {no comments}

This is the second of 4 new windows for the Willowdale Zion Presbyterian Church at the Sunnybrook Farm Museum in Red Deer Alberta. These windows all measure some 26 inches wide by 57 inches high, cathedral shaped. This music note, cross and lady slipper flower design were the ideas of the donor family and after consultations with the donors, ourselves and Martha Hanson of Paned Expressions Studios in Edgewood Maryland, the pattern was created.

This window consisted of some 215+ pieces of glass, constructed with the copper foil method, with all seams hand soldered with 60/40 solder. The panel then cleaned with Kwik Clean – Novacan Black Patina – then polished with Kem-Pro Clarity Polish.

We used a came bender to make the 3/4 inch zinc border came, with all solder joints attached to the came. It was quite a measuring job to ensure that the 6 old windows and the 4 new windows all were made to precise measurements. The museums contractor did an amazing job  installing all of these windows into the new double paned window frames.

Final Design by Martha Hanson of Paned Expressions Studios

“Praying Hands” New Window-Willowdale Church at Sunnybrook Farm Museum Red Deer

Filed under Museum Church Windows by on March 14, 2025 at 5:30 pm {no comments}

This is the first of 4 new windows for the Willowdale Zion Presbyterian Church at the Sunnybrook Farm Museum in Red Deer Alberta. All of these windows measure some 26 inches wide by 57 inches high, cathedral shaped. This design was prompted by the donor of the window and through consultations with ourselves and Martha Hanson of Paned Expressions Studios in Edgewood Maryland, the pattern was created.

This window consisted of 182 pieces of stained glass, constructed with the copper foil method ( we use 7/32 Black Backed foil, with all lines hand soldered. We clean with Kwik Clean – use Novacan Black Patina – and polish with Kem-Pro Clarity polish.

It took us several weeks to compete and deliver for installation.

The following photo shows our work in progress on building this window.

Final design by Martha Hanson of Paned Expressions Studio

Willowdale Church Rainbow – Dove Windows – Sunnybrook Farm Museum 2023

Filed under Repairs, Restorations, Windows by on March 9, 2025 at 2:30 pm {no comments}

These are the last 2 of the original windows church windows. Unfortunately they needed some repairs with new glass in various areas.

 

This photo shows the condition of one of the above windows prior to restoration, which included replacing cracked glass, old frame removal along with cleaning, polishing and the addition of the new 3/4 inch Zinc border came.

Designer and Artist Unknown

Willowdale Church Alberta Rose Windows – Sunnybrook Farm Museum

Filed under Church Windows, Repairs, Restorations, Windows by on July 20, 2024 at 5:50 pm {one comment}

These 2 existing Alberta Rose windows that were in the Willowdale Church required lots of repairs with some new replacement glass, new 3/4 inch zinc frames, cleaning and polishing. They are now installed in the Willowdale Zion Presbyterian Church located at the Sunnybrook Farm Museum in Red Deer Alberta.

These windows measured approximately 26 inches wide by 57 inches high cathedral shaped. They were installed behind new double paned glass. The church after being moved some 50 ks from SE of Red Deer in September of 2021 required a lot of restorations and renovations.

Do to some medical issues we have been away from our studio for sometime, but after a hip replacement for Bob, we are slowly getting back to working in our studio.

 

The following 2 photos show the damage that we had to restore on one of the above windows

Designer and original artist unknown – restorations and repairs by Flory & Bob Wilkins

Sunnybrook Farm Museum – Willowdale Church Gladious Windows

Filed under Church Windows, Uncategorized, Windows by on February 19, 2024 at 5:30 pm {one comment}

We started the 6 originial church window restorations with the 2 Gladious Windows. After removing the old zinc frames they both needed much cleaning using Kwik Clean and then polished with Clarity along with new 3/4 inch zinc frames. It took some time with our came bender to get the cathedral top portion bent correctly to fit exactly to the glass window.

One had a cracked piece of background glass on the bottom right and we simply foiled and soldered that piece together as we were unable to obtain matching replacement glass.

All of the windows measured approximately 26 inches wide by 57 inches high catherdral shaped. We had to be very careful not to remove or destroy the etchings on the bottom left hand side, during the restoration process.

Both of these windows were then installed in their original locations in the front of the church by one of their very experienced craftsman employed by Shunda Consulting Construction & Management Ltd.

 

Designer and Original Artist Unknown

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