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Restoration
Your transom or sidelight re-leaded, with its own glass.
from €395 per transom
Stained glass studio · Voorbeeldstad
Old glass, new lead.
Stained glass studio in Voorbeeldstad. We re-lead 1930s transoms and sidelights, make new windows to design, insulate without losing the lead and run workshops at the light table.
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7Around four o’clock the sun falls through the transom of the old bakery onto our workbench. That’s how we choose glass: in real light.
- Our own glass bank of old glass
- Restoration following the ERM guideline
- Temporary pane while your window is with us
From the old bakery
Almost every 1930s house has one
bove the front door, next to the door or in the bay: a window of small pieces of glass in lead. They are almost a hundred years old, and that’s just the age when lead gets tired. The panel bulges, rattles in the wind or lets water in.
Throwing it away is a waste. The glass itself lasts for centuries. We take the panel out, dismantle it completely and re-lead the glass. What’s broken we replace with glass of the same age from our own glass bank.
We also make new windows. For a new-build house that could do with some colour, or for an old house whose original window was lost at some point. Every design starts with a full-size cartoon.
Since 2009 we’ve re-leaded around 1,900 panes. Our racks hold 400 colours of glass, and a glass bank of old glass from 1900 to 1960.
I almost never throw glass away. A shard from 1932 always fits somewhere later on.
Charlotte Wijnalda, stained glass artist
What goes on the light table
Prices incl. 21% VAT. All prices and details
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New windows
A window to your design, from sketch to cartoon to glass.
from €575 per m²
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Insulation and secondary glazing
Warm in the hallway, without losing the lead.
from €175 per window
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Workshops
Cut glass, lead and solder yourself, with four people at most.
from €95 per person
How a window comes about
First the cartoon, then the glass
Every window starts on paper, at full size: the cartoon. Every piece gets a number and a letter for its colour. On that drawing we cut the glass, set the lead and solder every joint with tin.
On the left you see the transom as it will sit in the frame; on the right it’s still on paper. Point to a colour letter and see which pieces it becomes.
- A amber
- R ruby
- K cobalt
- G antique green
- H clear cathedral
- O opal
At the light table
Learn leading yourself, four at a time
Our light table is 2.40 metres long. Four people fit around it, so there are never more. In a morning you make a small panel, in four evenings your own window. It smells of stearin and warm tin, and at half past eight there’s coffee.
About the workshopsUpcoming dates
- Your own window · four Tuesday evenings19:00 – 22:001 of 4 free
- Taster · small panel 20 × 2010:00 – 13:302 of 4 free
- Taster · small panel 20 × 2010:00 – 13:30full
- Leaded Christmas star13:00 – 16:003 of 4 free
- Your own window · four Thursday evenings19:00 – 22:004 of 4 free
Each box is one stool at the light table. You can sign up via the form.
Pages from the workbook
Rising sun in the Bloemenbuurt
The lead was worn out. The sidelights were bulging and in a strong wind the transom rattled in its rebate. Three pieces of amber in the sun were cracked, probably for decades.
“The best compliment: the neighbours couldn’t tell anything had changed.”
- Time
- 3 weeks in the studio
- Costs
- €1,480 for all three
Stairwell window for a town house
A new design 2.10 metres tall, in cobalt and clear antique glass.
The sixth window of the bay
Five panels restored, the sixth redrawn from a photo from 1952.
Send us a photo of your window
Take the photo from inside, with daylight behind it, and put a folding rule or your hand next to it for scale. You’ll soon hear whether the lead is worn out, and roughly what the job will cost.