Stained glass work : a text-book for students and workers in glass (1905)
Whall, Christopher, 1849-1924 · New York : D. Appleton · leaf 48
Cutting This upward jerk must be sharp and (elementary) swift, but must be calculated so as only just to reach the glass, being checked just at the right point, as one hammers a nail when one does not want to stir the work into which the nail is driven. A pushing stroke, a blow that would go … much further if the glass were not there, is no use ; and for this reason neither the elbow nor the hand must move ; the knuckles are the hinge upon which the stroke revolves. But you can only cut certain shapes — for instance, you cannot cut a wedge- shaped gap out of a piece of glass (fig. 1 3) ;…
Glass painting and staining
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