This photo is a panel from Meeker flower window, taken apart, with glass cleaned, awaiting reassembly with new lead. They make rubbings and take photos to ensure accurate reassembly, and clean glass by soaking in organic detergents that will not damage painted surfaces. One interesting reassembly challenge is that individual pieces of glass vary in thickness by as much as 1/8”.

This photo is one panel from Meeker flower window after reassembly with new lead. Photo shows how much brighter the colors will be once it comes home!

This photo shows a panel from the Tiffany window, partly disassembled. Note the thick lead channel sticking out near center of photo – it had “plated” multilayer sections that have been removed for cleaning and repairs. The clear tape you can see across upper right section was used (along with slabs of foam) to hold windows in place during transit (packed in wooden crates) to studio, located west of Philadelphia, in Media, PA.

Last photo shows pieces of Tiffany “firecracker” glass used in landscape scenes – it was made by shattering glass of different colors, scattering the pieces, and then pouring a new layer of glass over it. Once heated in a kiln, it creates a speckled effect that can look like tree leaves or flowers from a distance. Copper foil repairs are needed for these sections, because the hot/cold transitions caused many cracks in this “firecracker” glass – because the Tiffany designers did not anticipate how the fragments of different glass would expand and contract at different