Engraving and Decorating Glass

By Barbara Norman

Book Overview

Clear, handsomely illustrated guide introduces the history, materials, tools, and techniques of glass engraving and other forms of glass decorating. Techniques include diamond point, copper-wheel, drill engraving, and more.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 048625304X
• ISBN13: 9780486253046
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Older and still great!

This is the best book I have found on diamond-point engraving, which is what I do. I think it is better even than Boyd Graham's Engraving Glass:a Beginner's Guide. Barbara Norman, an English glass engraver herself, has a conversational style of writing that is also helpful and encouraging. I wish I had found this book when I was just getting started, it would have made things so much easier. Even so, I learned ideas for tools and methods I hadn't used, and it inspired me to do more with my work. Norman also includes historical information, somewhat English based, on glass decorating techniques included in the book, i.e. drill-engraving, cooper-wheel engraving, cold-painting, gold engraving under glass. I would love to see her do an updated edition of this book, because the photographic style of the book is dated as it was published in 1972; until then this is the best, especially on diamond-point engraving.