User talk:RogerJ

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Hope the advice worked. --evrik 21:58, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

It did, and with pleasantly surprising efficiency. RogerJ 03:44, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Stained glass
Thanks Roger! Now if we could only stop people throwing rocks.....

--Amandajm 09:55, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

creating a page
search the page you want to create. If it does not exist you see a search screen that tells you that you searched for that page. The page name will be a red link. Click on that link and you have opened up the empty page. Type in your text. Click on save. give it a page summary and away you go.

Cheers --Spartaz 14:17, 24 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Try clicking on this link http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Drapery_glass&action=edit
 * Yay! I did it!  I even uploaded pictures.  I am very excited but I am sure I made some noob mistakes here and there.  Please take a look, and let me know if the tone is OK before I make more pages. Drapery glass - Rippled glass - Ring mottle glass - RogerJ 13:41, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Very nice indeed. Tone is fine. Articles need to be wikified and the images need to be incorporated into the articles but they look very nice as they are. If I have time later today I'll give you a hand and try and fix the images and add some internal links. You also need to add some links to your new articles from existing glass related content. A very nice start. I'm looking forward to seeing some more new content if its going to be as good as this.  :)--Spartaz 15:41, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

I moved the images to be integral to the articles and resized them. Please let me know if you are unhappy with this. --Spartaz 22:30, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Beveled glass
Not quite sure why you requested an RfC here. Just be bold and trim the links section down to size. David Mestel(Talk) 18:51, 9 November 2006 (UTC) I have removed all the links. They were all inappropriate. --Spartaz 22:13, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Desg
Editing talk comments from other users is pretty antisocial and borders on vandalism.I'd just revert him if this happens and ignore him. Your time is much better spent writing articles then worrying about him. :)--Spartaz 20:13, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Vidimus
Hi Roger!

I checked out this online magazine and returned it to the list of external links on the stained glass page, again. I think that it is worth persevering with, given that it is only their second edition, and they are looking at ancient windows in a good deal of detail. It won't be too longg beffore the iinteresting stuff accumulates.

They also provided the link to Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi

--Amandajm 11:06, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Various types of glass used in the creation of art objects
Hi Roger!

I'vve just taken a loook around several of the "materials" related articles that you have contributed.

I'm of thhe opinion that several of them should be combined under a generic heading because


 * they have been labelled stubs, but under a single heading they would constitue an article.
 * the article on Architectural glass functions effectively in this manner.
 * they are particularly related to a single artist, Tiffany, and to work that stems from his particular style.
 * they have only one illustration each, which shows the type of glass effectively, but not its use in the artist's work. A picture (to an art historian) constitutes a visual document.. The articles need such visual documents.
 * the articles have been designated as material related stubs. If they were put together, they would also be Art, craft, and architectural related articles.

In saying this, I know that a separate article exists for Cathedral glass. The cathedral glass article needed separation because
 * it is a very widely used building material, found in millions of ordinary homes.
 * its name caused continual confusion with stained glass windows in cathedrals.

I think, likewise that slab glass requires a separate article.

But-

Streamer glass, Fracture streamer glass, fracture glass and drapery glass etc seem to me to be very closely allied. They are variations of what? Favrile glass?

It seems superfluous to have them all listed separately, in articles that have been all been labelled stubs.

--Amandajm 00:36, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Glass
Hi Roger! Thanks for getting back to me!

OK!, so Favrile glass is that particular iridescent glass you get on Tiffany vessels, right? Sometimes that iridescence is also seen in Tiffany windows...is that still Favrile glass?

I've put the articles all together under Tiffany glass. I think that it llookks good, bbut I don't know whhether what I've added is entirely correct. I'm an Art Historian, not a producer and even though I've been involved with the restoration of church windows, its been as a facilitator, not as a craftsperson.

I thinkk there is probably much thhat you could add. I hope you like the pic I chose for the intro. Its a smmall one, comparativelyy, which means you can see the details without blowing it up annd the glass background is just fantastic, So is the drapery glass.

--Amandajm 22:11, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

OK, Roger!.... well, get over there and add a bit more. Have you got a pic of a piece of Favrile glass by any chance? This particular pot keeps coming to mind...

Do you know, there was a potter who worked for Royal Doulton at that time who was doing similar fabulous things with glazes. I think it was Noke. Maybe it was Moore or Nixon... Or maybe Noke invented it and they all used it. Anyway, he produced a glaze which I think he called Sung gllaze, which was like a celadon glaze, except iridescent. He also did a great line on crystalline glazes. Theres one pot glazed yellow with a sort of largish splash of another greenish-greyish colour which has crystaliised so that it forms a chrysanthymum (How do you spell it?) pattern. His iridescent pots would have been around at exactly the time that Tiffany was doing his thing in glass. Aaaand Henri Lalique was doing truly opalescant glass - it's smoky grey to look at, but red to transmitted light... well, some of it is, anyway.

I spose there are articles about all these people, but I haven't checked them out.. Michelangelo is keeping me occupied. I'vve juust done a page on the restoration and I'm wondering how much really technical stuff I ought to put in.

What is your line with glass, precisely? Are you making the raw product, doing windows, copperfoil or what??

--Amandajm 04:19, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

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