More than 1,000 motifs, selected by expert glass painters, provide all the patterns and inspiration you’ll ever need. Covering every imaginable subject and style, from Victorian florals to Art Deco panels, decorative borders to animals, these superbly stylish images are grouped thematically and numbered so you can quickly locate the right picture for your project.
Pattern sourcebooks tend to be interchangeable for various crafts, which is somewhat the case with these two books. Gear and Freestone's work is a large collection similar to Mary McCarthy's The Crafter's Pattern Sourcebook (LJ 10/15/99). These motifs are arranged into general categories such as flowers or birds without further identification of item or source. However, these omissions probably do not diminish its usefulness. Everett offers a more limited collection of designs with instructions for etchings and photographs of finished pieces, some rather complex landscapes for advanced projects. Both books would be useful in crafts collections needing more design source material.
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