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Free Stained Glass PatternsUse free stained glass patterns and design ideas for crafting your own stained glass suncatchers, lampshades, panels, windows and candle holders. It can be both artistically rewarding or even profitable, depending on your inclinations.Creations made from free stained glass patterns will enhance your home or garden, and make great gifts for family and friends. Free stained glass patterns are also useful for making small projects such as suncatchers and candleholders, or larger project like panel lamps and full windows. They can be easily adapted for other crafts, and easily be adapted into: glass painting patterns, stained glass quilt patterns, mosaic patterns, rug hooking patterns, Gallery Glass patterns, scrollsaw patterns,kite patterns (kaleido patterns), silk painting patterns or even miniature doll house decorations. Hexagons are perfect stepping stones patterns. They can be a fun substitute for children's coloring books! For quilt or stepping stone patterns, some enlargement or simplification may be necessary. Many enjoy digitizing the stained glass patterns and for machine embroidery using the colored thumbnails as a template. Online free stained glass patterns are especially useful because they can be printed to the size that you desire using standard computer graphics programs - you don't have to scan them, it's already done for you. You don't have to worry about destroying your free stained glass patterns while using them, you can easily print a fresh new copy everytime! Please read the instruction page before printing, especially for the 3D projects such as the lamp shades, clocks, stepping stones and boxes. Some printers or programs scale images when printing, resulting in the stained glass pattern being printed too large or too small, depending on the situation. These programs may be useful to enlarge a panel to fit your window dimensions. Also, some programs do not print to the same size as the original scan of the pattern. Many stained glass pattern books are available from online bookstores, but you'll find the greatest variety from your local stained glass supplier. They are more likely to carry small-run, specialty and even out-of-print gems than even the largest book outlet. Another advantage of purchasing from your local supplier is that you can browse the pattern book's pages, something you can't usually do online. In this regard, online patterns mimick in-person shopping, because you can see them all with fairly good detail. Just a word of warning about 'stained glass coloring books'; they are often only meant for coloring, and require considerable changes to become a useable stained glass pattern. No longer are free stained glass patterns and designs "throw away," poor quality templates that aren't worth wasting glass! Chantal's Stained Glass PatternsThe original stained glass patterns and designs on my site are different from the pdf patterns posted by stained glass suppliers wishing to attract customers. They are pen and ink drawings and designs with little or no digital processing. I sincerely believe that a hand-drawn stained glass pattern gives more convincing, natural-looking results than those that are made digitally. There is a certain quality that the hand can achieve, but stained glass design software can never hope to achieve, and that translates into warmth in the finished product.I have set up this website to provide the visitors with easy navigation. However, this limits the number of patterns I am able to feature within this format, and I now consider "Chantal's Stained Glass" to be full. All my most recent stained glass patterns are now added to my new, similar website Chantal's Stained Glass Patterns. If you make use of the site updates page, you will find that I continue to list the new patterns on this website, even though they are in fact posted on my new site (identifiable with a black background, and a different logo). You will find patterns and designs that may be inspired by Louis Comfort Tiffany, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mondrian, art nouveau, flowers (floral), fish, bird as well as in Celtic, traditional, oriental, prairie or medieval traditions. Look for the many oval, hexagon or circle framed stained glass patterns. Also, you will find patterns not only for suncatchers or small beginner panels. Many of the patterns offered are for crafting high-end elaborate lampshades, but some of the lampshades are simple enough for beginners. Designs for special projects include tissue box covers (tissue cozies), mirrors, window corners, candleholders, sconces, stained glass boxes, clock faces, glass wreaths, mirrors, photo frames and even full size windows. The most ambitious stained glass pattern is the 'Wisteria and Chickadees' window, with over 1500 pieces (I have made a smaller oval with fewer pieces containing the same design elements, also). If you are looking for stained glass bird feeder pattern, I have made several in the Gazebo style that can be found on another site of mine, ART:ERY Stained Glass Patterns. |
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I'm often asked, "why do you do it?" One advantage of publishing free stained glass patterns online is I don't need to worry about the marketing and material constraints of publishing. I am free to produce patterns regardless of their marketability. I have the freedom to follow my inspiration and draw any stained glass pattern I want, from protozoa to roosters. I've also been asked how I decide whether a pattern is for free or for sale. I don't know! It's just a gut feeling, almost a coin-flipping decision. I have received so many grateful letters from every corner of the world thanking me for the free patterns because they are expensive or difficult to obtain outside of North America, you can say that keeps me going. Not to mention how I love to receive photographs of completed projects, or to see people using the termpl to make a little money selling them on ebay or other channels. The patterns are made with markers, and scanned. Large patterns with overlapping pages are scanned page by page. I order to provide a colored thumbnail to illustrate the pattern, the pages are assembled digitally and shrunk to size. Rest assured that the colored illustration is a faithful representation of the actual template. It's a very simple process. I'm not a business, just a hobbyist with a greater inclination to draw than to grind and foil! Printing Your Free Stained Glass PatternsYour pattern is the black and white cartoon below the colored thumbnail.If you don't see the black and white pattern, that means the pattern is for sale. A price is indicated, and I email you the pattern when I receive the payment. Patterns that are for sale do not look significantly different from those you see offered for free. If you have a color printer, you may wish to print the colored image in order to match colors at your local stained glass supplier. To print your favorite stained glass patterns, right-click on the black and white cartoon image, and save to your computer. Open it in "MS Paint" - a bare bones graphic program available with Windows. You can use MS Paint to enlarge patterns. One of the interesting properties of this program is that it's too dumb to fit the patterns to a single page size, so that if your patterns is larger than one page, it'll spill the contents over several pages. Just assemble the pattern pages with adhesive tape. For further instructions, please consult these pages on enlarging stained glass patterns and on printing stained glass patterns.  Stained Glass Pattern SearchIf you are looking for a particular pattern on this website, use the new Google website search function. With over 500 stained glass patterns and ideas, you don't want to miss the stained glass pattern you have been searching for, if it's there.If you wish to browse patterns from websites other than mine, I highly recommend you make use of the Stained Glass Pattern Directory. Unlike other listings, the Directory features all sites that offer stained glass patterns, including sites that sell patterns, for the greatest amount of variety - all are there, from the largest to the smallest. The listings are labelled with a "for sale" or for "free" button to expedite your search in the event that you are specifically looking for free patterns. Furthermore, whenever a website on the list is amenable to it (enough patterns, listed by name), I've added convenient search boxes that allow visitors to search them from the Stained Glass Pattern Directory page. You may also be interested in searching for pattern by topic, rather than by individual website, in which case Find Stained Glass Patterns is the website for you! Make sure to add these two sites to your bookmarks! They are the best of their kind. Won't you let them become your portal to the world of online stained glass patterns? Stained Glass Pattern Suggestions?I'm always looking for new ideas for free stained glass patterns. Do not hesitate to use the forum for design suggestions! Simply post your suggestion. If I decide on making the design, you will receive the pattern for free, even if I decide to sell it to others. Everyone wins - you have the pattern you need, and other crafters will be able to retrieve it online as well.Should you wish to make your own design, consider following the tips on the design tutorial page. Still having questions? Ask on a forum!There are many forums on the internet that are great resources for you if you have technical or artistic questions, or simply with to network with other glass hobbyists, craftspeople, and established artists.The The Glass Artist aims to serve the whole community of glass artists, from glass blowers, to casters, and bevellers. It's all there. It's a great place for you to acquaint yourself with all the wonderful art that can be made from glass.
PermissionsAs long as you are an individual stained glass crafter making ans selling your own crafts, you are free to use the free leaded glass patterns, or the stained glass patterns you have purchased online from this site, for making these stained glass projects.In accordance with the permissions granted on this site, many such crafters use the patterns or designs and sell their crafts on ebay, local shops or raise funds at charity auctions. You cannot, however, make copies of the free stain glass patterns or templates (or purchased) for distribution or for sale without permission. All restrictions also apply to the stained glass images. Do not post or distribute any of the stained glass patterns on other websites; rather, post a link to the appropriate web page on this site. New to stained glass?If you are looking for stained glass instructions, stained glass how to, or free stained glass instructional videos, do visit: ART OF STAINED GLASS.Should you wish to make your own design, consider following the tips on my design tutorial website. |
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