Posted on February 18, 2021
This is an update of my post originally published on February 18, 2010:
Born on this day in 1848, Tiffany was the son of Charles Tiffany, founder of the famous jewelry store. Louis Tiffany became an artist and designer who is most famous for his wonderful stained glass works – including Tiffany lamps.
He began his art training and career as a painter. Tiffany worked in several glasshouses before opening his own studio. He used to make his stained glass using cheap jelly jars and bottles, because they had the mineral impurities he needed. Finer glass had no impurities, and fine glassmakers would not agree to Tiffany's request to leave the impurities in—so Tiffany responded by making his own glass.
According to Martin Eidelberg, Clara Driscoll and a team of talented women designers helped create some of the patterns on Tiffany lamps and other pieces.
Enjoy Tiffany's art
Check out the Morse Museum (Florida) website to see a few of Tiffany's pieces. (Only a tiny percentage is available online, but Morse Museum has the largest collection of Tiffany's work in the world.)
Here are a few of my favorites Tiffany pieces:
Crafts that look a bit like stained glass...
...using glue.
Cover a piece of cardboard with clear plastic wrap (tape onto back to hold). Then draw a picture using white glue, making sure that there are lots of lines creating different areas; carefully press black yarn onto the glue lines so that your picture is now formed by black yarn outlines. Allow to dry.
Put white glue into a small bowl and use several drops of food coloring to create the pastel color you want. Dab a thick coat of the colored glue into every outlined area you want to be that color. Create other colors using white glue and food coloring and continue to fill in outlined areas of your picture. Allow to dry thoroughly before peeling the “stained glass” off of the plastic-coated cardboard.
... using tissue paper.
Here is a window project, and here is a vase project.
... using crayons.
... using candy.
... using waxed paper.
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