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Before you order,
and after it arrives

The questions people ask the studio, answered from the bench: the glass, the sizes, the photo, the weeks, the wall and the dusting. 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 Bernese mountain dog portrait taking shape in layered glass on a linen board inside its walnut frame, small dishes of loose glass pieces sorted by colour around it, fine tweezers, a tube of adhesive and a folded grey cloth
Materials

What is a Glassculpt glass portrait made of?

Real glass cut and placed by hand, layered into relief on natural linen and framed in a walnut shadow box. The parts of a Glassculpt portrait, one by one.

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A tricolour beagle sculpted in glossy layered glass on linen, in a dark walnut shadow-box frame on a warm plaster wall above a wooden sideboard
Sizing

30 cm or 50 cm: which glass portrait size?

Two sizes, 30 × 30 and 50 × 50 cm, both square and both in the same walnut shadow box. Which suits a hallway, a shelf, a sofa wall, one subject or two.

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A Bernese mountain dog stretched out on pale oak boards next to his own glass portrait, the same dog in glossy layered glass on linen in a walnut shadow-box frame standing upright on the floor beside him, a bookcase, a window with a plant and a brown leather armchair behind
How it is made

How long does a glass portrait take?

About a minute to see the design, about five weeks door to door for the finished piece: 32–36 days today. Your own order's estimate appears before you pay.

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A warm greige limewash wall above a long low walnut console, a stoneware jug of eucalyptus at one end and two linen-bound books under a brass bowl at the other
Hanging

Where should a glass portrait hang?

It arrives ready to hang on the shadow box's own fitting. Which wall, which light and which size for a hallway, a shelf, a stairwell, a sofa or a sideboard.

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Overhead view of a pale linen tablecloth with an opened gift box, inside it a Bernese mountain dog glass portrait in a walnut shadow box and a smaller ginger cat portrait alongside; around them kraft boxes with green ribbon and sprigs of pine, a few pine cones, a ribbon spool and a string of fairy lights
Gifting

How do I send a glass portrait as a gift?

Most Glassculpt pieces leave as gifts. Put their address at checkout, order by 19 November for Christmas, and add a name or a line in glass under the portrait.

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