05/19/2026
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One of the conversations about the issues with AI and stained glass patterns specifically is
"Oh but that AI pattern worked for me"
Yes, but at what cost was that to someone else?
Example below:
1: I asked it to generate a pattern
It produced an entirely non workable pattern
2: I fed it my design as the prompt
It still produced a pretty bad pattern in terms of practicality, but notice the cuts, especially around the lotus area.
It went from entirely unworkable cuts to mimicking my pattern, making the cuts workable.
AI does not understand the perimeters of stained glass.
It doesn't understand the point of the off lines, they view them closer to a stylised mosiac. Pointless and for the aesthetic of it being told it's stained glass.
If you bought a workable AI pattern, for that pattern to be workable, it was fed someone else's work directly.
If you can find the original creator, buy from them.
If that isn't available, just save the image and trace it.
(This is my own moral stance and yours may vary, but you can't mass produce stained glass as a home hobbyist who might sell some Suncatchers at a market 🤷)
Do not financially support theft directly to the thief.
(Aka Etsy AI pattern sellers with 5k plus sales in 2 months)
It hurts what is already a dying craft, we all know that stained glass isn't a money maker for the vast majority of us, but funding the AI Etsy pattern sellers hurts real makers even more by taking away what little revenue there is to be had.
So here's your reminder that the following popular Etsy shops are Al:
BoboCreations
BloomVector
ASNPATTERNS
WalnutCoffee
LustraGlass
PeppyFoxs list of Etsy shops she's researched and confirms as Al:
BLACKARTVN
CraftedByAwais
Greenland
EcomCrafts
TheHope Anthology
Punshopvn
TrueGlass Patrern (lololol)
ArtnesiaGalery
QGCraftsPakistan
Stained Glass Digitone
OctoLineArt
GlassPatternLab
GlowGlass Patterns
BunnyBytes
Glass NovaStudio
AlexArtHub
CraftedKnit
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