I’d love to see a video of the color changing.
Wouldn’t we all but it was long before videos were something we did without thinking. I only have a couple of yellowing photos and the whole thing has since be removed from the ship and probably thrown in a skip.
I really shouldn’t be posting these here but it’s what I do.
Finished up reinstalling these today after a full restoration.
A well known artist originally from Poland, late in his career, windows dated 1944, died 1955 at the age of 90, so he painted these when he was around 80.
Hope I can do similar at that age (in a few weeks it feels like).
meh, it is out of the box. as advertised. 
A bit tedious as it is quite repetitive, but it was done to show how you can use follow me with multiple groups to create a complex structure of touching parts that is not one single mass of geometry.
Also not sure if the video will display correctly.
Now that’s pretty slick. Not being able to see the whole path had me scratching my head at first, then had the “aha” moment. 
OK, suddenly I’m curious. How long does a restoration of windows like these take? And what do you do with the empty spaces while you have the windows out?
Temporary glass or boards depending on the situation.
I’ve been away in the country mostly offline for the last few days installing a restoration job in a tiny church in the middle of nowhere N.S.W. A round trip of a little over 1200 kilometers, or around 750,000 miles. The town itself has a permanent resident population barely into double figures and wider community of about 100 spread over many many square kilometers.
The church itself is in dire need of some TLC, the whole town is really, but one of the long time residents decided her family window should be restored, to acknowledge her ancestors and continue the family history for the younger generation, so she paid for the restoration work.
The window was in such a poor state that we collected it in several boxes of assorted remnants. No photos existed so it was a glass jigsaw puzzle with no picture to look at and no idea if all the pieces where even there.
Anyway, it’s back in place now and has fired up the community spirit and got them coming together organising work on the church itself to bring it back to it’s former simple glory.
We have removed the second window and have it back in the studio as it was also about to fall out on the floor, so much so they had put a mattress on the floor under the window to catch the pieces as it collapsed.
I didn’t take a photo of the whole church but this is a street view image from 2008 and even then the window is boarded up. The facet on the right hand end that just looks white.
The inside before we started work. You can see the window to the left is boarded up and has pieces missing.
Then the restored window back in place and the other window uncovered ready to be removed. Certainly livens the place up a touch.
Well done !
Wow, to the moon and back, and then back to the moon again!
And he would walk 500 more!
I was just checking if anyone was actually reading my drivel.
I figured it was a translation thing with a comma instead of our decimal.
It’s well known that no American can convert metric to imperial correctly, and everything is bigger in America so the extra 000s seemed appropriate.
The windows seem to be of a very high quality compared to the simple structure. Actually, a nice contrast. Is there a third one hidden behind the altar?
Yes they are somewhat incongruous, but it often happens with churches, particularly older ones. The original church was built about 150 years ago, but it blew away in a storm early last century. The ‘new’ one was built to replace it some years later, it also fell off its foundations at some point and was eventually reset on tree stump peers. All of this sort of work is done by the local community, often by farmer builders without any professional architectural involvement and to a level that the ‘current’ community can afford.
In the case of this church it was built without considering any stained glass, the windows in question were the same as the rest of the windows, with a transom and double openings. At some point two landowners decided to Donate windows dedicated to their respective families. So the transoms have been chopped out to allow for the use of the full opening. This has not been done well, and we even had to cut new wood patches to infill the gaps created by the missing transom. Ideally the whole frame should have been redone, but they didn’t want to spend the money on that. They did replace the bottom sill because termites had totally devoured the original.
Interestingly both windows were made by the same firm but not at the same time nor by the same artist, the company had changed hands in the intervening years. The one we have just restored was made in two parts with a joiner, the thicker horizontal line you can see, and is fitted directly into the timber frame. The other window is actually made in one piece and is fitted into a steel frame that is then fitted into the timber frame, it doesn’t fit and has been packed out with termite food etc. It is entirely possible that one or even both windows were originally built for somewhere else and have been bought on spec and the relevant text inscriptions added.
But there are no records available to confirm that, and the Artist that did the one I have restored is still alive but in his late nineties with little interest in anything except pottering in his garden.
And no, no third one, just a wall gradually collapsing.
Bloody hell I can ramble on can’t I.
You could say that for sure. … But good reading!
What kind of wood has been used for the window frames as food for the termites?
If I remember right, mahogany would be a good choice.
Certainly not Mahogany, way too exotic, they did mention something a few times but I wasn’t really listening, it was a specific cedar that is termite resistant.
As I said:
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If I remember right, …
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Well, now that you mention cedar that could very well be it.
All the windows of our house (in the Caribbean some 60 years ago) were restored/replaced with termites resistant wood, probably imported cedar.