These attractive and durable 24-gauge stainless steel ornaments come individually gift-boxed with a card (see text printed below) explaining the history and process I use.  All snow flakes can be backed with a colorful stained glass of your choice for $25.00, including glass and ornament.

The insert sheet with each snow flake contains the following text:

The Story Behind These Snow Flakes

Did you ever try to photograph a snow flake? It is a tricky, cold process.  Even the warmth of your breath or of your body heat can melt a delicate specimen which may otherwise have survived a 2000-foot free fall down to earth.  Yet, the results can be beautiful, as a Jericho, Vermont farmer found out during the early 1900s.

For nearly half a century, W.A. Bentley devoted all his spare time capturing and photographing the best snow flakes he could find.  After spending years studying thousands of his photomicrographs, "Snowflake" Bentley was the first person to demonstrate that no two snow flakes are ever exactly alike.  Each crystal reveals the wonder of nature's diversity in uniformity; and while all are different, each is based on a common hexagon.

Jericho sculptor Jack Chase lives less than a mile from the old Bentley homestead.  He has re-created in stainless steel the best of "Snowflake" Bentley's work.  Selecting from over 2000 unaltered photos as well as the original Bentley photomicrographs, Jack first chooses a design.  Then laboriously line by line, he transfers the shape into a computer program.  The computer directs a laser to cut the intricate and complex form out of a ten-foot sheet of solid steel.  Finally, the snow flake blank is finished by hand, often using a 400-pound work bench Jack's great-great-great grandfather built in 1838.

Hang it in a window or on a Christmas Tree--or even on the outside of your house.  The stainless steel will not rust.  It is hoped that this combination of Bentley's old-fashioned perseverance and space-age technology has produced a result whish is as pleasing to your eye as it was to Bentley when the original delicate crystal landed near his camera one snowy day nearly a century ago.