A couple of my men

A pic taken whilst visiting the family (son Laurie, daughter in law Nina, Alice (10) and Grisha (2) in Garmisch Partenkirchen, where they live.

Mural by Nina.

House move.

Suddenly we are moving house to move in with my parents. They need us so everything, Book, jewellery , glassy stuff and all will have to wait a few weeks till we are settled in.
I will soon be back on the blog, so meanwhile happy holidays to all!

The Book, Glass Gold Leaf and Paint

Progress is being made.

I have edited nearly all chapters and in the early New Year it will go for the final edit (final, ha.), and the self publishing machine will start to grind into action. I am now compiling a list of possible buyers, so I will have an idea of the print run. It will be small, but those who want it, really want it; its been a long time coming. And we can always reprint.

So anybody reading this who may want a copy, please let me know.

And if you have any ideas about institutions to contact such as some obscure glass museum in the Boonies I have never heard of, or some institution of some kind that would be interested, shout!

Some facts about the book:

Glass, Gold Leaf and Paint

Foreword by Bill Gudenrath (Corning Museum of Glass, USA)

A chapter on the history of the techniques by the Munich-based conservator, Simone Bretz

About colour 80 pics.

Apart from the history, there is discussion of materials and how to work with them, equipment, recipes, methods, and a Mirror Project with step by step photos of every stage.

Also there is an extensive biblio., glossary, suppliers list and museums list.

It will be about 20, 000 words, around 200 pages.

I fully expect it to come out next year. Fingers crossed.

More soon!

17^th century églomisé (engraved leaf on glass) Pair of Shepherds Courtesy, Wolfgang Steiner