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All About Stained Glass

Stained glass in the arts, the coloured glass used for making decorative windows and other objects through which light passes.  Strictly speaking, all coloured glass is "stained" or coloured by the addition of various metallic oxides while it is in a molten state. Nevertheless, the term stained glass has come to refer primarily to the glass employed in making ornamental or pictorial windows. The singular colour harmonies of the stained-glass window are less due to any special glass-colouring technique itself than to the exploitation of certain properties of transmitted light and the light-adaptive behavior of human vision. Continue reading from Britannica

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Link to Stained Glass by Steve Clare in the Catalog
Link to Kicking Glass by Niele Cooper in the catalog
Link to Great Stained Glass Projects by Sandy Allison eBook on Hoopla
Link to Stained Glass Making Basics by Lynn Haunstein eBook on Hoopla
Link to 162 Traditional and Contemporary Designs for Stained Glass by Joel Wallach in the Catalog
Link to Arts and Crafts Sained Glass Pattern Book by Carolyn Relei ebook on Hoopla
Link to Modern Designs Stained Glass Pattern Book by Anna Croyle eBook in Hoopla
Link to Sayings and Expressions: Stained Glass Patterns by Anna Croye in the Catalog

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