We stormed Castle Brenda again this afternoon, to try our hands at soldering and to start cutting out our Wheelwright. We arrived to find that Brenda had been inspired by our interest in glass work and had kindly decided to make another little window for us to solder so we could each have one to practice on and take home! (She really is the best!)
It turns out that although I am a bit of a wuss when it comes to cutting glass I can solder decently (for a first-timer) and a little more practice makes the glass cutting a less terrifying. Once we had our pretty practice windows done we decided it was time to graduate from straight lines to the big leagues. Curves and weird angles, oh my!
I would like to say at this point: Glass working is hard, time consuming work! And that's for us, using modern tools.
Brenda also let us know of a glass work studio downtown that has a kiln available so we are hoping to be able to paint a few pieces of our window. The face, hands, and upper robe are the pieces we most need to have painted as they will look quite plain and silly without the paint. If we have time we would like to paint the lower robe and the legs as well. It is unlikely that we will be able to use Theophilus' paint recipe as it involves pounding and burning copper. He calls for the combining of equal parts copper powder, "byzantine blue" glass powder, green glass powder, and a little wine or urine to make a paint. We feel that our time constraints justify our using modern paint.
Jessica has custody of the photos from today so I expect she will be posting the best ones - and her thoughts on the day - sometime soon.
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