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Choose the correct words
What is a stained glass window? (...1...) the outer design or the line and
the shape and the design of the overall window. The glass is specially chosen,
it's always hand made in the mediaeval period and it has beautiful colouring.
It's really a combination of designing something to fit that space. It can
quite often be historical or biblical figures, it can be a narrative (...2...) .
The St. William window that we're working on at the moment really tells
a story from the first panel to the last, over a hundred panels. But overall
to describe what a stained glass window is, it's really a bringing together
of the skill of a glass painter, the skill of a glazier and putting all
those elements together to create something really artistic and beautiful
within the confines of the space.
1: Choose a word
1: made up
1: make up
1: may cup
2: Choose a word
2: seen
2: seem
2: scene
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York Glazier's Trust background (...3...) in 1967 because following the war a
big appraisal of the all the glass in the minster was carried out. And by
that time it was determined that there was such a problem, such a need for
a conservation studio to work full time on the glass that really we needed
to have a more structured approach to it. Looking around the Minster there
are far more windows that need working on than we can deal with at one time
but the most (...4...) cases for conservation are the one's we will
deal with in our remit as York Glazier's Trust.
3: Choose a word
3: found
3: founded
3: foundered
4: Choose a word
4: pressing
4: passing
4: precious
Listen
Skills and qualities (...5...)
work, often very repetitive. It's never boring, but there's a real need
to be very calm, to be able to work often under pressure because there's
a lot of glass to get through often in a very short space of time, but always
with the key factor being a (...6...) to the glass, to be a very
careful person, a very methodical person and to be also to be very practical,
to be able to work very closely with very small objects. I would say the
real key factor would be that you must have an attention to detail at all
times with the glass because of it's fragility and it's importance.
5: Choose a word
5: painful
5: painmaking
5: painstaking
6: Choose a word
6: sensibility
6: sensitivity
6: sentimentality
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Job satisfaction (...7...) prints in the paint that belonged
to the artist 500 years ago. You can analyse and study the brush (...8...)
and try and learn to do that yourself in terms of repainting missing areas.
It's really a wonderful thing to actually step back sometimes and think
this was painted 500 years ago and I'm cleaning it, I'm working with it.
And it's so difficult to get that close viewing from the ground. Once
the window goes back in it's almost lost again. Those very fine details
are very difficult to see.
Links for more information York Consortium
for Conservation and Craftsmanship - York Glazier's TrustYork Minster
7: Choose a word
7: thumb
7: bum
7: gum
8: Choose a word
8: stripes
8: stokes
8: strokes
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