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Article: No pane, no gain: what may be the nation's largest stained-glass studio seizes the light.(PICTURE THIS)(Statesville Stained Glass Inc.)
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- Business North Carolina
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- June 1, 2004
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"If you want to assemble simple windows, first mark out the dimensions
of their length and breadth on a wooden board, then draw scroll work or
anything else that pleases you and select colors that are to be put in.
Cut the glass and fit the pieces together with the grozing iron. Enclose
them with lead cames and solder on both sides."
The monk Theophilus circa 1100 A.D.
It's only right that church ties gave Dennis Lackey the chance to buy his business: Churches are where Statesville Stained Glass Inc. gets 95% of revenue, now totaling more than $4 million a year. That's triple what it was 11 years ago when he and his wife, Sylvia, bought the studio, which opened ...