Fine crafts is a sub-category of the larger category of arts and crafts. Fine crafts generally refers to one-of-a-kind artworks in a craft medium that exemplify the best or near-best that the medium has to offer. Fine crafts does not mean certain craft media, where other media are excluded altogether. Any craft medium has the potential to be taken to the level of fine crafts by one or more of its practitioners. My work is an example of fine crafts as it applies to stained glass. These eight windows depict an abstract floral design that was adapted from silk drapes that hang on another set of windows in the same room as these stained glass windows.   These panels are not puttied. Putty is applied to a leaded glass panel to make it airtight (and/or weatherproof) and to hide flaws in the precision of the cutting and leading of the glass. These panels do not need putty because they don't face the outside world (i.e. they don't need to be weatherproof) and because my glasscutting and lead construction techniques are so precise that no flaws are visible even though the panels are leaded with the smallest width of lead came commercially available... 1/8th inch.

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