Dover Crafts: Stained Glass Sayings & Expressions: Stained Glass Patterns, (Paperback)

No more cracked letters! If youve ever tried to make your own stained glass designs from scratch, then you know about disappointment. So, leaning on the experience of others can help (a lot). Yet, although artists have been including text in their visual works since Cubism (at least), its really exploded in the postmodern period not to mention for use in signage and such. But I havent been able to find many examples of lettering that I could actually use. So thats where this book comes in. It includes a complete alphabet template a sans serif with slanted bars/crossbars which could be adapted for use in a wide variety of ways. Plus, there are decorative layouts for settings/scenes which include related text, all in various decorative typefaces. These include sayings like: Good Times, Irish Pub, Aloha, Welcome To Paradise, Dream Big, Sail Away, Lucky, Peace, Free as a Bird, Nature Calling, Be Fearless, Birds of a Feather, Carpe Diem, Tasting Room, and many more. The entire templates are entirely professional and would work in a variety of settings. For example, Rock Star features a star, within a circle, with angel/bird wings extending out from the sides, with ROCK above and STAR below, with the crossbar on the T turning into an arrow, pointing right. Very nice designs and its so helpful to be able to go into it with some additional faith that my finished design wont crack by the time its delivered.