For those of you who have asked about Lamberts Glass suppliers in the USA. Here is a useful link www.bendheimstainedglass.com/

I am a second generation art glass craftsman working in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Lamberts glass is absolutely phenomenal! We have had the pleasure of working with it both in restoration work and new custom work. We currently have a restoration project that we are working on that requires a few different shades of Lamberts crackle glass. Thank you for highlighting this amazing glass company!

@DerekHuntArtist

11 ай бұрын

That’s great news! So pleased you get to use their glass too. It all helps to keep the skills alive for everyone 🙂

@MamaShorty

11 ай бұрын

Where do you get their glass through? Local store or a website? I've been wanting to support traditional glassmakers, but I definitely don't have any locally

@DerekHuntArtist

11 ай бұрын

@@MamaShorty depends where you are. If Europe then there are suppliers, but don’t know about the USA

@eliaspreston4355

11 ай бұрын

In the United States the only supplier for Lamberts glass that I know of is Bendheim. I believe they are based in New York or New Jersey.

@DerekHuntArtist

11 ай бұрын

@@eliaspreston4355 yes I believe that’s right. www.bendheimstainedglass.com/

Dude, everything you do is first class.

@DerekHuntArtist

6 ай бұрын

Thanks, I appreciate that.

So happy to have been able to listen to this interview.

@DerekHuntArtist

11 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!🙏🙂

What a valuable interview and images of glass and glass production. A great joy to see that this medium stained glass has such a wide spectrum of playing with light. Many thanks!

@DerekHuntArtist

11 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!🙏🙂

Brilliant interview , beautiful glass thank you for sharing 😊

@DerekHuntArtist

11 ай бұрын

You’re very welcome and thank you for your support !🙏🙂

Oh, that was a wonderful interview! Thank you so much for sharing this.

@DerekHuntArtist

11 ай бұрын

You’re very welcome!🙏🙂

Fascinating craftsmanship! Thank you for this glimpse into a very special world.

@DerekHuntArtist

11 ай бұрын

My pleasure! 🙂

That was an amazing interview. This year saw the closing of South Australia’s last glass supplier. It’s going to make glass work so difficult and time consuming, not to mention the added cost.

@DerekHuntArtist

11 ай бұрын

Hey Jan, great to hear from you, but also sad to learn about the closure of your last South Australian glass supplier. Challenging times no doubt!

Great interview, very interesting topic, inspiring shots, thank you

@DerekHuntArtist

11 ай бұрын

Glad you found it helpful 🙏🙂

Fascinating, thank you

@DerekHuntArtist

11 ай бұрын

You’re welcome! 🙏🙂

Wow. What an amazing video, and an amazing resource. I was extremely fortunate to be given a small amount of multicoloured bariole lamberts glass, but I cannot bring myself to ever use it in a stained glass window, as the glass feels far too beautiful to ever cover with paint!

@DerekHuntArtist

11 ай бұрын

So glad you found value in the video, and great to hear you've got some Lamberts of your own!

Thank you for sharing Derek! Truly beautiful glass ❤I have heard and seen Lambert glass but of course it is out of my price range 😂. As a small project stained glass artist based in the US, it saddens me that stained glass isn’t even on the radar of something being taught in public schools ( at least not where I live) and both of my local stained glass shops no longer offer classes due to supplies being so expensive and COVID.

@DerekHuntArtist

11 ай бұрын

Really glad I can share this with you and so pleased you enjoyed the interview!🙏🙂

@DerekHuntArtist

11 ай бұрын

I hear ya! It’s a challenging time for stained glass.

Splendide !

@DerekHuntArtist

11 ай бұрын

Thank you !🙏🙂

Merci de cette présentation exceptionnelle . ( petit étourderie de votre part, le verre Saint Just est le plus beau verre fait main du monde 😄)

@DerekHuntArtist

11 ай бұрын

Merci Olivier ! 😀

I do find colours especially steel blue from a few years back is totally different to what they make now. I know local glass makers and he explained to me that changes in the batch are the reason. Certail chemicals elemnets are banned. I spent allot of time with them to understand the raw material even books on old batch recipes going back to medieval flint glass. The glass makers I know have glass colour rods 70 plus years old. The Gold is so rich and intense to what you can buy even from lamberts. But sadly the glass makers are not geared for sheet production its father and son. But they made a sheet of Gold flash but it took time. I find Lamberts glass is soft it also shrinks with multipal firings. To counter this I'll for the paints each layer low and do a final higer firing to polish etc. Of course the firing temps are relatively lower. Lamberts glass is great I have 44 plus collected. But i feel its not perfection. Reason stated above and colour intensity is close but just not quite there. This applies even to glass blowers frit, mell powder. Im lucky i have a local glass blower freinds his father with 53 years plus. Iv been let loose hepled them very fantastic to see them work. Due to batch makeup changes over the years there is a difference. I have victorian flashed glass and on the grinder I can feel how hard it is. Yes the cost of energy has driven up the price but chemically and batch wise were getting not the good stuff for the cost. With arsenic and other minerals banned I have Victorian era Blue muffle strips in a blue I simply cant get the intense aqua blue. That being said i love the graded flashes red into pink. I read the sheets. I like a uniform flash foe even acid etch. Or a thick colour flash to thin for grading effortless. Gorgeous glass

@DerekHuntArtist

11 ай бұрын

Wow! A lot of information there Edgar, thank you for your insights and so helpful to get you experience. I have no doubt glass has changed over the years and different makers make different glasses. When I was at Art School in Edinburgh, we learned the art and craft of stained glass using Hartley Woods glass exclusively, and it was fantastic glass. I had the privilege of visiting Hartley Woods factory in Sunderland and watch gold pink being made before they went out of business. I have also had the privilege of buying and using Fischer Antique glass from Germany, ( also wonderful glass, but quite different to English Antique) until they too went out of business. I have used Tatra glass which was cheaper and not as good, and they are out of business. So, now we have Lamberts as the premier maker of quality mouth blown glass, and I am delighted they are still here to provide beautiful glass for artists and creatives to work with. Everything changes over time, but quality is timeless.

@edgarbeat2851

11 ай бұрын

@DerekHuntArtist I'm glad for ny wallets sake I don't live near Lamberts factory. But I do hope to make a visit one day. Keep up the great work. Even your video tutorials are great for keeping up to scratch. I do have bad habits so it's great to refresh. Would be cool if you could do a how to on cartoons scaling up and down. Also geometry not geometry in a modern maths way but medieval. I'm dyslexic badly I use the medieval geometry way. Grammar police will have a field day. Sorry.

@DerekHuntArtist

11 ай бұрын

@@edgarbeat2851 good suggestions, thanks

@edgarbeat2851

11 ай бұрын

@DerekHuntArtist was the hardest part to get my head around. I taught myself medieval style geometry as I was not taught modern geometry at school. Gothic arches, etc The border glass in the arch border I accidentally discovered how to keep uniform and in proportion. By running lines and the intersections.

I've never seen a sheet of Lamberts glass, the number of stained glass shops in our area has dropped dramatically over the past 30 years. None that I know of stock Lamberts.

@DerekHuntArtist

11 ай бұрын

Where are you based?

@grampsinsl5232

11 ай бұрын

@@DerekHuntArtist - Saint Louis Missouri, so nearly 3 million people in the immediate metropolitan area. There are a number of small studios in the area that are really people's private homes, where they do work on commission. There are a few shops that have classes and sell glass but I've never seen Lamberts in any of them. I don't think there's a strong customer base here, i.e. people who are actively looking to put stained glass in their homes. From what I can tell, the remaining shops survive on income from their classes or occasional sales of small items in their gift shops, so they tend to buy lower-end glass. Their operating margins are just too slender for them to be able to afford expensive glass when they already sell so little of the cheap stuff. Sad but true.

@DerekHuntArtist

11 ай бұрын

Yes that’s really sad to hear! Lamberts glass isn’t cheap and it probably won’t be the first choice for the hobbiest. But it is truly fantastic mouth-blown sheet glass !

@eliaspreston4355

11 ай бұрын

We have a small selection of Lamberts glass in our shop, Preston Art Glass Studio. We are in St. Louis too.

@DerekHuntArtist

11 ай бұрын

@@eliaspreston4355 excellent! Hopefully more people in the US will start using it 🙏🙂