The Glasshouse Stained Glass Studio

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The Glasshouse Stained Glass Studio I'm Linda Mulloy and I've been running the glass studio, making stained and fused glass and teaching others, for many years. We all learn from each other.

Right now I'm interested in encouraging people, who come to learn, to make bigger pieces for themselves, with my my support. Linda Mulloy teaches glass courses throughout the year. People often come back after a couple of basic courses to make a more ambitious piece or a lampshade. Beginners are not expected to have any previous artistic or creative skills. and it's amazing how quickly people learn enough skills to make something of which to be proud. All courses are for beginners and improvers. Because of the small group (usually 6 or 7) you can work at your own speed, be it fast or slow. The cost of all the materials is included and you will be able to make 2 or 3 small panels during a three day course, with a larger panel on the last day.

A first fused piece can be a handful of shapes on a clear sheet of glass. The second one is where you start to see what ...
15/10/2026

A first fused piece can be a handful of shapes on a clear sheet of glass. The second one is where you start to see what the kiln does with them.

Glass softens as it heats. Edges round off, small bubbles get caught in the clear base, and a shape you cut square comes out looking like it was always meant to be a petal. You can plan for some of that, but you only really learn the rest by firing another piece.

For bookings or questions, call 087 798 1123.

One weekend turned into three for a few of my students this year.They came in nervous about cutting glass, made a small ...
14/10/2026

One weekend turned into three for a few of my students this year.

They came in nervous about cutting glass, made a small panel, and then just kept coming back. But rather than starting fresh each time, they sat down early on with a pencil and planned one big design, then chipped away at it, course after course. It just kept growing, until one of them needed help carrying hers out the studio door. Big enough for her own hall door by then.

That's really what the Use Your Skills course is for, picking up where your last piece left off.

Click here to book a course, https://www.theblueglasshouse.com/workshops

Upcoming Use Your Skills Course: 5–6 December 2026. To book or ask a question, email [email protected] or call 087 798 1123.

Remember the bowl I put a hammer to a few weeks back? This is where a good chunk of it ended up.All those shards fused f...
09/10/2026

Remember the bowl I put a hammer to a few weeks back? This is where a good chunk of it ended up.

All those shards fused flat onto black glass, and the disc actually looks better as itself than as the bowl it was meant to become. This one's earmarked for a wall now, not a shelf. There's a second circle doing the same thing.

Whatever's left over might turn up in whatever I fuse next. You never know, you might be using a piece in your fusing attempts!

Hold a piece of textured glass up to a window and the street outside stops being a street. A traffic light turns into a ...
08/10/2026

Hold a piece of textured glass up to a window and the street outside stops being a street. A traffic light turns into a soft green blob, the buildings go milky, and the bubbles sit in front of it all like they own the place.

I've been cutting glass for 35 years and I still stop to look at this. The ripples and bubbles are bending the light on its way through, which is why nothing behind the glass ever looks quite where you left it.

For bookings or questions, call 087 798 1123.

A score line is barely a scratch. Enough to break the surface tension, no more. Beginners always want to push harder, an...
06/10/2026

A score line is barely a scratch. Enough to break the surface tension, no more. Beginners always want to push harder, and glass never rewards that.

Get the pressure right and a clean snap follows almost on its own. Get it wrong and you find out exactly how a crack decides to travel instead of where you wanted it to go.

For bookings or questions, call 087 798 1123.
Next Stained Glass Course: 14–15 November 2026. Email [email protected] with any questions.

Most people book one stained glass weekend and leave it there, and that's absolutely fine.But a few come back for more. ...
02/10/2026

Most people book one stained glass weekend and leave it there, and that's absolutely fine.

But a few come back for more. Instead of starting fresh each time, they keep working on one bigger design, planned out early on and built up weekend after weekend, until it stops looking like a beginner's project altogether. If you're someone who finishes a thing and immediately wants to know what's next, that's exactly who the Use Your Skills course is for.

Click here to book a course, https://www.theblueglasshouse.com/workshops

Upcoming Use Your Skills Course: 5–6 December 2026. Also coming up in November, for beginners and improvers: a Stained Glass Course on 14–15 November and a Fusing Glass Course on 21–22 November. To ask a question, email [email protected] or call 087 798 1123.

Nobody walks in already knowing how to do this.That's a leaded piece mid-solder, the whole thing held down onto the tabl...
01/10/2026

Nobody walks in already knowing how to do this.

That's a leaded piece mid-solder, the whole thing held down onto the table with horseshoe nails before the iron gets near it. .

Every course starts with someone who has never picked up a glass cutter. You learn to cut, foil and solder from the first morning, and by Sunday you're carrying home something you made yourself.

For bookings or questions, call 087 798 1123.
Next Stained Glass Course: 14–15 November 2026. Email [email protected] with any questions.

"Which one's for me?" is the question I hear most.Leaded glass is the traditional method, the kind you'd have seen in ch...
27/09/2026

"Which one's for me?" is the question I hear most.

Leaded glass is the traditional method, the kind you'd have seen in church windows for generations, held together with lead came and solder. Copper foil, the Tiffany method, is often used for the more delicate work, but the two are mostly interchangeable, it comes down to which suits the piece. Fused glass skips soldering altogether, you layer and arrange the pieces, and the kiln melts them together to finish the piece for you.

No experience or artistic background needed for any of them. I've had complete beginners finish real pieces in all three, right here at the Quay.

Click here to book a course — https://www.theblueglasshouse.com/workshops

Upcoming Stained Glass Course: 14-15 November 2026. For bookings or questions, call 087 798 1123 or visit theblueglasshouse.com.

A lot of people arrive slightly nervous about cutting glass.Then they actually use the cutter.You're shown how to handle...
25/09/2026

A lot of people arrive slightly nervous about cutting glass.

Then they actually use the cutter.

You're shown how to handle the glass and tools properly, and you learn by doing it at the table. Most beginners are far more worried beforehand than they need to be.

Course dates: https://www.theblueglasshouse.com/workshops

Upcoming Stained Glass Course: 14–15 November 2026.
For bookings or questions, email [email protected].

Reusable, not refuse.Sometimes the most satisfying thing you can do with a piece is take a hammer to it. This one was mi...
25/09/2026

Reusable, not refuse.

Sometimes the most satisfying thing you can do with a piece is take a hammer to it. This one was mine, made a good while back, and its time had well and truly passed.

Every shard is heading into the kiln to fuse flat, then it gets shaped into two much smaller bowls. When they are out of the kiln and out of the moulds I'll show you the finished pieces, and whichever shard turned out the most striking of the lot.

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The Quay
Westport
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