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You will need:

Big Hammer!!
Protective Goggles
Some stained glass
Piece of material such as an old curtain

A hammer can be used to create randopm shaped stained glass mosaic pieces easily!

Method

1. Take the glass outside, wrap the material aroud it underneath and over.

2. Put on goggles

3. Pretend to be a fighter pilot for a few minutes…. ; )

4. Use the hammer side ways on and gently but firmly tap the glass all over, increasing the strength till you can feel the glass breaking under the material. Cover the whole area of galss before carefull removing the shards. Be careful, you will probably need to either use glass ‘nibblers’ to take off the really sharp bits, you can then use a handheld glass grinder to smooth the sharp edges of all the pieces.

5. Rinse off any glass dust on the pieces and hey presto your own home made randomly shaped stained glass mosaic!!

This method is much cheaper than buying precut glass mosaic, especially if you can get cheap offcuts from your local stained glass supplier!

written by Stained Glass Mosaic Artist