Alberta Rose Transom Window Summer 2014

Filed under Flowers, New Windows, Windows by on August 14, 2014 at 5:30 pm {no comments}

We were commissioned to make 3 interior transom windows for a farm home in Central Alberta. The following photos will take you from initial design ideas, construction, completion and installation of the first window which featured 3 Alberta Roses. These windows measure approximately 3 feet wide by 1 foot high.

The first photo shows the beginning of our initial design idea.

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After client approval of the Alberta Roses, border design and interior glass we first started with the Alberta Roses and the border.

AlbertaRoseTransomWindowDesign2014

The following picture shows the left side, we used Spectrum’s Pearl Opal #603-81CC Blue Skies for the border, Spectrum’s 609.8 Clear White Pink Wispy for the Roses, with #6067-83CC Mimosa Pearl Opal for the rose centres and #329.6 Dark Green Swirled with White Wispy for the rose leaves. The surrounding glass was an architectural clear texture glass called Morisco, which poised lots of fun problems in lining up the texture to match.

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In the next picture the panel is now ready for soldering.

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The next photo shows the window soldered and ready for patina.

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Once we have soldered a window and have applied patina we then construct and attached a 1/2 inch zinc came frame which we do not patina. We ensure that the solder joints in the window are attached both front and back to the zinc frame with cleaning and patina touch ups of these joints. Once completed then the window is polished and thoroughly cleaned.

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Here is the completed window.

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Our clients were most pleased and installed the window later on the day it was delivered to them, this picture was taken from the reverse side as they wanted to have the front facing into their daughters bedroom as she loves Alberta Roses.

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 Design by Flory & Bob Wilkins

Alberta Rose Came Window Restoration # 1

Filed under Old Came Windows, Old Came Windows, Repairs, Restorations, Windows by on June 6, 2014 at 5:30 pm {no comments}

We have now finished the restoration of the 1st of 2 old Alberta Rose Came windows. This first one has a rose/pinkish granite background glass. Fortunately none of the background glass was broken however we did have to use some the green leaves, stems and amber border from the 2nd window, which allowed us to make one complete window with all original glass. This window was delivered to our client in Stettler Alberta a few days ago. He was most impressed and eventually we will be given photos of where he intends on placing it in his home.

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The second picture below shows of just how much the granite background glass glistens in sunlight as the sun’s rays change during the day.

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To view more of the construction details about this Alberta Rose window follow this link on our website

Alberta Rose Came Window Restorations

We love to do these restorations of very old came windows but they are an intense labour of love on our part, requiring many hours of reconstruction from photographing, numbering of each piece of glass, then lots of cleaning of those pieces of glass to remove decades of dirt, paint and grime, then restoring them in new came, soldering, cementing, cleaning and polishing. These windows that have lots of this granite glass takes many hours of intense cleaning with various brushes, X-ACTO knife blades, polishing cloth’s etc. but the finished restoration gives our clients and ourselves a great deal of  pride and satisfaction.

 

 

Judy’s Restored Came Window January 2014

Filed under Old Came Windows, Old Came Windows, Repairs, Restorations, Windows by on January 22, 2014 at 5:34 pm {2 comments}

Last year we rebuilt and restored this old came window, which included obtaining some new bevels and adding the colored Youghiogheny 5502SP art glass. Judy had the restored window mounted in a new wooden frame and it now proudly hangs in her home in Central Alberta.

Judy said “I finally have that beautiful window you repaired, framed, hung and as promised here is a photo.”

“Thank you again so much for the wonderful job you did. I just love it!”

 

 

Old Wooden Frame Window Repair/Restoration

Filed under Repairs, Restorations, Windows by on August 12, 2013 at 5:30 pm {no comments}

A number of years ago a neighbor brought us this old wooden frame stained glass window. Fortunately the only glass broken in it was one of the center frosted (Glue Chip) pieces of glass. While the wooden frame looks flimsy it was quite solid and our clients wanted to leave it as is. Replacing the one piece of broken glass was not a big issue, but over the years and numerous coats of paint, the colored glass become speckled or had a substantial amount of paint on it. The only way to remove that paint from that rough textured glass was to pick it off little by little with an X-Acto knife, ensuring that we did not scratch this old glass. After this detailed cleaning we then polished the glass, restoring it to it’s original beauty.

 

Miniature Church Stained Glass Window

Filed under Church Windows, Windows by on June 6, 2013 at 5:30 pm {no comments}

Quite a few years ago the United Church in Innisfail was making a small model of a church, which if memory serves us correctly, was going to be auctioned off as a fund raiser.

When we saw it we decided to help by adding a small stained glass window which would add to the authenticity of the model church. This was our design.

 

Design by Flory Wilkins

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