Ideally, no one should know …
When we restore stained glass, we want to be an unsung hero. Yes, we’ve stepped in and made a copy – a gorgeous copy. But the main point is: we want our work to pass unnoticed in the sense that no one else should ever know how anything had once been wrong.
For example, we can replace damage like this:
Damaged stained glass
… with a stained glass forgery like this:
No one will know …
But …
It doesn’t always happen this way.
Sometimes you’ll see this – a bad “copy”:
… when Williams & Byrne can forge you this:
An excellent copy
Or sometimes you’ll see work like this:
Stained glass – shocking restoration
… when this is the kind of copy we can make for you:
Stained glass – skilled forgery
Certainly, this work needs time and money. You have to find (or have made) the suitable glass. You have to locate (or make) the appropriate paints. Then always there are a lot of tests to run.
In the end it comes down to this: our copies will be as close as it is possible to make them.
That’s what restoration is – but often isn’t.
Williams & Byrne – forgers of distinction
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