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Etched & Stained Glass Dome (Ireland)
The stained glass came from an abbey in Belfast, Ireland
(Mount Melleray - Portlegon House - Our Lady Of Bethlehem Abbey).
The work consisted of the replacing one segment of a six segment dome which had been broken. Each piece was approximately 1700mm X 1220 mm (67 inch X 48 Inch). The overall size of the dome was 3.5 MT wide X 3 MT high
The work we carried out was to copy and reproduce the etched fired enamel design from the original segment, we then applied the design to a piece of 7mm Roughcast, we then applied a resist to the glass, the glass was then sandblasted, Then with the help of a company who specializes in glass bending the glass was both bent and fired in a kiln at the same time. Bent glass is not unusual to this size but glass staining is.
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