Coat of Arms - Yorkshire

(2006) 3' x 5' Stained glass (blue swirl, amber swirl, opalescent white, wavy clear), copper foil, lead solder, steel rods.

Well, this got finally finished yesterday. It is my biggest and my most intricate piece so far and the first of a projected 5 windows to fill the five front-facing windows of our home.

The white rose on blue is the coat of arms of the English county of Yorkshire, my husband's birth-place. Next I will do North-Rhine Westphalia in Germany (my original neck of the woods), then the arms of England and Germany where I will probably take some artistic license as the simple Cross of St. George and the basic black, red and gold bars of the German flag are kind of boring - I'm thinking lions and eagles instead. And the last flag will have to be Texas for our newly elected home...

It will probably keep me busy for a looong time to go. This sucker ate up 9 rolls of lead wire (that's a LOT!)