Chapter I: Front Matter

Introductory, and Concerning the Raw Material 29

CHAPTER II

Cutting (elementary)--The Diamond--The Wheel--Sharpening--How
to Cut--Amount of Force--The
Beginner's Mistake--Tapping--Possible and
Impossible Cuts--"Grozeing"--Defects of the
Wheel--The Actual Nature of a "Cut" in
Glass 33

CHAPTER III

Painting (elementary)--Pigments--Mixing--How to
Fill the Brush--Outline--Examples--Industry--The
Needle and Stick--Completing the Outline 56

CHAPTER IV

Matting--Badgering--How to preserve Correctness of
Outline--Difficulty of Large Work--Ill-ground
Pigment--The Muller--Overground Pigment--Taking
out Lights--"Scrubs"--The Need of a
Master 72

CHAPTER V

Cutting (advanced)--The Ideal Cartoon--The Cut-line--Setting
the Cartoon--Transferring the Cut-line
to the Glass--Another Way--Some Principles
of Taste--Countercharging 83

CHAPTER VI

Painting (advanced)--Waxing-up--Cleanliness--Further
Methods of Painting--Stipple--Dry
Stipple--Film--Effects of Distance--Danger of
Over-Painting--Frying 94

CHAPTER VII

Firing--Three Kinds of Kiln--Advantages and Disadvantages--The
Gas-Kiln--Quick Firing--Danger--Sufficient
Firing--Soft Pigments--Difference in
Glasses--"Stale" Work--The Scientific Facts--How
to Judge of Firing--Drawing the Kiln 105

CHAPTER VIII

The Second Painting--Disappointment with Fired
Work--A False Remedy--A Useful Tool--The
Needle--A Resource of Desperation--The Middle
Course--Use of the Finger--The Second Painting--Procedure 118

CHAPTER IX

Of Staining and Aciding--Yellow Stain--Aciding--Caution
required in Use--Remedy for Burning--Uses
of Aciding--Other Resources of Stained
Glass Work 129

CHAPTER X

Leading-Up and Fixing--Setting out the Bench--Relation
of Leading to mode of Fixing in the
Stone--Process of Fixing--Leading-Up Resumed--Straightening
the Lead--The "Lathykin"--The
Cutting-Knife--The Nails--The Stopping-Knife--Knocking
Up 133

CHAPTER XI

Soldering--Handling the Leaded Panel--Cementing--Recipe
for Cement--The Brush--Division of
Long Lights into Sections--How Joined when
Fixed--Banding--Fixing--Chipping out the Old
Glazing--Inserting the New and Cementing 144

PART II

CHAPTER XII

Introductory--The Great Questions--Colour--Light--Architectural
Fitness--Limitations--Thought--Imagination--Allegory 154

CHAPTER XIII

Of Economy--The Englishman's Wastefulness--Its
Good Side--Its Excess--Difficulties--A Calculation--Remedies 156

CHAPTER XIV

Of Perfection--In Little Things--Cleanliness--Alertness--But
not Hurry--Realising your Conditions--False
Lead-Lines--Shutting out Light--Bars--Their
Number--Their Importance--Precedence--Observing
your Limitations--A Result of
Complete Training--The Special Limitations of
Stained Glass--Disguising the Lead-Line--No full
Realism--No violent Action--Self-Effacement--No
Craft-Jugglery--Architectural Fitness founded
on Architectural Knowledge--Seeing Work _in
Situ_--Sketching in Glass--The Artistic Use of
the Lead--Stepping Back--Accepting Bars and
Leads--Loving Care--White Spaces to be Interesting--Bringing
out the "Quality" of the
Glass--Spotting and Dappling--"Builders-Glazing"
_versus_ Modern Restoring 163

CHAPTER XV

A Few Little Dodges--A Clumsy Tool--A Substitute--A
Glass Rack--An Inconvenient Easel--A
Convenient Easel--A Waxing-up Tool--An
Easel with Movable Plates--Making the
most of a Room--Handling Cartoons--Cleanliness--Dust--The
Selvage Edge--Drying a
"Badger"--A Comment 182

CHAPTER XVI

Of Colour 198

CHAPTER XVII

Of Architectural Fitness 234

CHAPTER XVIII

Of Thought, Imagination, and Allegory 248

CHAPTER XIX

Of General Conduct and Procedure--Amount of
Legitimate Assistance--The Ordinary Practice--The
Great Rule--The Second Great Rule--Four
Things to Observe--Art _v._ Routine--The
Truth of the Case--The Penalty of Virtue in
the Matter--The Compensating Privilege--Practical
Applications--An Economy of Time
in the Studio--Industry--Work "To Order"--Clients
and Patrons--And Requests Reasonable
and Unreasonable--The Chief Difficulty the
Chief Opportunity--But ascertain all Conditions
before starting Work--Business Habits--Order--Accuracy--Setting
out Cartoon Forms--An Artist
must Dream--But Wake--Three Plain Rules 264

CHAPTER XX

A String of Beads 290

APPENDIX I

Some Suggestions as to the Study of Old Glass 308

APPENDIX II

On the Restoring of Ancient Windows 315

APPENDIX III

PAGE

Hints for the Curriculum of a Technical School for
Stained Glass--Examples for Painting--Examples
of Drapery--Drawing from Nature--Ornamental
Design 321

NOTES ON THE COLLOTYPE PLATES 327

THE COLLOTYPE PLATES 337

GLOSSARY 369

INDEX 373