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.

See also

• Arts and crafts
• Art glass
• Beveled glass
• Cathedral glass
• Float glass
• G. Owen Bonawit
• Glass mosaic
• Glassblowing
• Glass bead
• Hot glass
• Stained glass windows
• Churches - Stained glass windows are often used in more traditional church architectures, especially in the nave, to depict various saints and scenes from the Bible. This was especially important when the bulk of the population was illiterate. See also icon.
• Important examples of stained glass windows include Sainte-Chapelle, in Paris, France and Cathedral of Chartres, in Chartres, France
• Houses - Stained glass was particularly popular in the UK in the prosperous Victorian era and many domestic examples survive, typically depicting birds and flowers. Most of them rely on machine made patterned glass to refract the light rather than the more expensive hand-made glass used in church windows.
• Prairie style homes
• Frank Lloyd Wright
• Public houses - In Britain, traditional pubs make extensive use of stained glass and leaded lights to create a comfortable atmosphere and retain privacy.
• Stained glass lamp / Lampshades
• Prairie lamp
• Frank Lloyd Wright
• Tiffany lamp
• Louis Comfort Tiffany
• Painted glass
• Tiffany glass
• Venetian glass