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Before you order,
and after it arrives

The questions people ask the studio, answered from the bench: the glass, the acrylic, the sizes, the photo, the weeks, the wall and the cloth. Every figure is the studio's own, and the live price and delivery estimate are shown before you pay.

The studio bench under a window: a sailboat taking shape in navy, white, teal and amber cut glass on a clear acrylic panel, small dishes of loose glass pieces sorted by colour around it, fine tweezers, a glass cutter, a plain tube of adhesive, a folded grey cloth and four steel standoffs
Materials

What is a Sailenne boat portrait made of?

Glossy coloured glass cut piece by piece, set in low relief on clear acrylic and sealed in a float frame on steel standoffs. The parts of a Sailenne piece.

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A maker's hand with fine tweezers placing a small piece of navy cut glass onto the hull of a half-built glass sailboat on a clear acrylic panel, dishes of sorted cut glass around it, daylight from a window
How it is made

How is a Sailenne boat portrait made?

From the photo you upload to the box that arrives: the design, the approval, the cutting, the setting and the sealing, in order and in the studio's own words.

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The photograph of the sloop the design was drawn from: a white-hulled sloop with a navy stripe heeling gently under full sail on a blue sea
Your photo

What photo of my boat works best?

Side-on or three-quarters, the whole boat in frame, daylight, and no other boats in front of her. What to send, what to avoid, and how to shoot an old print.

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A lakeside cabin room with a varnished wooden runabout in cut glass hanging in a clear acrylic frame on the timber wall, and through the window below it the same wooden runabout moored at the dock on the lake
Hanging

Where should I hang a boat portrait, and how?

Four standoffs, four screws, a finger's width off the wall. Which walls suit it, how to fix it to plaster, timber or a bulkhead, and what to keep it away from.

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Five boats in cut glass in clear acrylic float frames hung in a row on a warm white studio wall, a varnished wooden runabout, a red harbour tug, a white sloop under sail, a red canoe and a green narrowboat, above an oak bench with a coil of rope and a small wooden bowl
Choosing

Which boats can be made in cut glass?

Sail, power, working boats, paddle and oar: a sloop, a runabout, a lobster boat, a tug, a narrowboat, a canoe, a kayak. What each comes out like in glass.

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A lakeside cabin room with a varnished wooden runabout in cut glass hanging in a clear acrylic frame on the timber wall, and through the window below it the same wooden runabout moored at the dock on the lake
Your photo

Can I make a boat portrait from an old photo?

A print from the seventies, a slide, a brochure page: how to photograph it so the design can read the lines, and what to expect from a faded or damaged one.

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