In the middle ages, during the time of the great cathedrals, each trade had a patron saint. Saint Mark (or Saint Marc in French), depicted with his mythical winged lion, was the patron saint of glass workers. Today, the great carnivores are more readily associated with the financial world, but that's another story.

A glass pane of the appropriate thickness is cut to the desired dimensions and a vinyl mask is applied to it. Your selected design is hand-drawn on that mask and then cut with a blade. All areas to be sandblasted are exposed by removing the mask in decreasing order of depth. During the sandblasting, the velocity of the abrasive and exposure time are controlled with great care to engrave the different parts of the drawing to just the right depth. No re-masking is possible. And watch out for those scratches! The finished product is then unmasked, cleaned, and wrapped carefully. And that's it!

Given the custom nature of our work, we have as many designs as we have customers. Nonetheless, to help inspire you, to narrow down your choice, we have catalogs of small drawings indexed by theme. These have been used as preliminary drawings in previous projects. A wide variety of objects and themes are depicted.

Yes. Most of our business is concentrated in the greater Montreal area. We have often delivered finished products outside this area with no problem.

Of course not!

One has to be patient. In time, and a bit of management help, these companies will offer an almost acceptable substitute product. In the meantime, don't be satisfied with these warehouse stores; for once experience the complete and personal joy of acquiring something for yourself, to your own taste.