Stained Glass Work: A Text-book for Students and Workers in Glass - Hardcover

Christopher Whall

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0953571807 ISBN 13: 9780953571802

Publisher: Imprint unknown, 1999

Synopsis

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVI OF COLOUR Of Colour But how hopeless to deal with it by way of words in a book where actual colour cannot be shown! Nevertheless, let us try. ###### . . . One thinks of morning and evening; ... of clouds passing over the sun; of the dappled glow and glitter, and of faint flushes cast from the windows on the cathedral pavement; of pearly white, like the lining of a shell; of purple bloom and azure haze, and grass - green and golden spots, like the budding of the spring; of all the gaiety, the sparkle, and the charm. And then, as if the evening were drawing on, comes over the memory the picture of those graver harmonies, in the full glow of red and blue, which go with the deep notes of the great organ, playing requiem or evening hymn. Of what use is it to speak of these things? The words fall upon the ear, Of but the eye is not filled. All stained-glass gathers itself up into this one subject; the glory of the heavens is in it and the fulness of the earth, and we know that the showing forth of it cannot be in words. Is it any use, for instance, to speak of these primroses along the railway bank, and those silver buds of the alder in the hollow of the copse? One thinks of a hint here and a hint there; the very sentences come in fragments. Yet one thing we may say securely: that the practice of stained-glass is a very good way to learn colour, or as much of it as can come by learning. For, consider: -- A painter has his colour-box and palette; And if he has a good master he may learn by degrees how to mix his colour into harmonies; Doing a little first, cautiously; Trying the problem in one or two simple tints; learning the combinations of these in their various degrees of lighter or darker: Exhausting, as much as he can, the Of..

Edition details

• Publisher: Imprint unknown
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0953571807
• ISBN 13: 9780953571802
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 400