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Stained Glass

Strictly speaking, stained glass is glass that has been painted with silver stain and then fired. Depending on its thickness, this stains clear glass with a gold/yellow/brown color. This appears most typically in the golden haloes depicted in church windows. In general usage, stained glass refers to glass that is colored by added metallic salts during its manufacture to create a wide variety of colors. Early stained glass artists were limited to a very few primary colors, but today almost any color can be produced. These colored glasses are available in many different textures—smooth, wavy, rippled, hammered, pebbled, or very rough. These different textures cause the glass to have light and color transmission characteristics that, even for the same color, can provide surprising results. In conventional stained glass work, glass of different colors is cut into pieces, shaped by grinding, and then assembled using zinc or lead cames or a copper foil method. The assembled pieces are then soldered together to create windows, panels, and/or lampshades incorporating colorful pictures and designs. Stained glass is an art and a craft that requires the artistic skill to conceive of the design and the engineering skills necessary to assemble the piece so that it is capable of supporting its own weight and (for a window) surviving the elements. After centuries of repetition and little innovation, stained glass underwent a major renaissance of form. The impetus for this new modern glass was the restoration of thousands of church windows throughout Europe, destroyed by World War II. German artists led the way, notable artists include Ludwig Shaffrath, Johannes Shreiter and many others who transformed an ancient art form into a contemporary art form. Today there are few academic establishments that teach the traditional skillset. One of those establishments is Florida State University's Master Craftsman Program who recently completed the world's largest secular

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Stained Glass

Arpingstone, you actually like the all-images-on-right look? I think the old layout looked much better. – Quadell ^{(talk) (help)} 22:19, Oct 3, 2004 (UTC) :The reason for the change was that on my 1024 by 768 screen one pic was stuck horizontally against another (hard to describe it!) so most were on the right but one was out of place. It seems that what looks good on your screen looks terrible on mine. So to make the article look good for everyone a simple right-column is sometimes the only choice because the ideal situation of a left-right alternation doesn't work. If you don't like what I've done, just revert, I don't mind - Adrian Pingstone 22:34, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Painted stained glass

There is no mention of the common habit of painting detail (e.g. faces) onto stained glass. Is that because it is a different craft, or just an omission? Notinasnaid 11:22, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Largest collection

Does anyone know what the largest collection of stained glass is? Number of windows in a building, for example. CoolGuy 08:38, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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Stained Glass Window Patchwork

Stained glass window patchwork is a type of patchwork which simulates the effect of stained glass in church windows. Satin fabrics simulate the coloured glass, and black bias binding tape simulates the lead.

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Stained Glass Mosaic