Stained Glass
Stained glass is a term that is generally used to refer to glass that is made from a coloured material. The history of this kind of glass is long and dates back to more than a thousand years. The term is normally used to allude to church windows as well as windows in important buildings. The traditional way of making stained glass involves use of flat panels though now-a-days this kind of glass also includes 3D structures as well as sculptures.
Stained glass-Louis Comfort Tiffany Lamps
The term stained glass is also used in modern vernacular and includes anything like residential leadlight and objects d’art that are made out of lead as well as copper foil glassworks. The most well known example of this is the Louis Comfort Tiffany lamps.
Colour is added to the glass
Stained glass material is any glass that has colour added to it through addition of metallic salts. Coloured glass is often crafted to form stained glass that contains small sized pieces of glass that are specially arranged to create a desirable pattern or even a particular picture which in turn will be held together with the help of lead strips and which are also supported by rigid frames.
Paint details on the glass
Details can be painted onto the stained glass and it can also be stained in the yellow colour which helps in enhancing the design of the object. Stained glass is a term that is commonly used to refer to windows that have colour painted onto the glass and then the glass will have these colours fused onto it in a kiln.
Use skills, craft and artistic abilities
To create this kind of glass it is necessary to use all your skills, craft and artistic abilities. In particular, one must be exceptionally skilled to engineer the desired kind of stained glass. In addition, it is necessary to make the window fit in a snug manner into any space that has been created to hold the glass. What’s more, the glass should be strong enough to resist winds as well as rain and in addition the window should be strong enough to support the weight of the glass.
There are many examples of stained glass that has survived over a long period of time including from the early middle Ages. These kinds of glass pieces have been used in Western parts of Europe as they were used to depict works of art. However, the main object of using such glass is to ensure that nobody can look into the inside and in addition such glass windows also need to keep light out and to also control the amount of light that enters through such glass windows.
The windows can be designed in different ways including as figurative as well as non-figurative and they can also contain narratives that are drawn from the Bible and from history as well as from literature. Some stained glass windows are created to display a particular saint or patron and even to show a symbolic motif which is generally something that depicts armour. Stained glass windows can also be made to display a particular theme such as an episode from the life of Jesus Christ.
