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A muntin (US), muntin bar, glazing bar (UK), or sash bar is a strip of wood or metal separating and holding panes of glass in a window. [1] Muntins can be found in doors, windows, and furniture, typically in Western styles of architecture. Muntins divide a single window sash or casement into a grid system of small panes of glass, called "lights ...
Modern windows are usually glazed with one large sheet of glass per sash, while windows in the past were glazed with multiple panes separated by glazing bars, or muntins, due to the unavailability of large sheets of glass. Today, glazing bars tend to be decorative, separating windows into small panes of glass even though larger panes of glass ...
Cottage windows are visible in this view of a bungalow-style house dating to 1921.. A cottage window is a double-hung window — i.e., a window with two sashes sliding up and down, hung with one atop the other in the same frame — in which the upper sash is smaller (shorter) than the lower one.
Window panes are often separated from other panes (or "lights") by lead strips, or glazing bars, moulded wooden strips known as muntins in the US. [1] Paned windows originally existed because of the difficulty of making large flat sheets of glass using traditional glassblowing techniques, which typically did not produce flat sheets larger than ...
Close-up of the panes of a capiz-shell window panel. In 19th-century Philippine colonial architecture, bahay na bato houses extensively used the capiz-shell window element. . Designed to take advantage of tropical cool breezes, these houses' large windows were built at least a meter high and as wide as five mete
The rooms on the ground floor and upper floor are illuminated by cross-framed, double-winged windows divided by wooden muntins, with square panes set in leaded glass. [5] The cellar windows are small, square, and single-winged. The window openings on the ground floor vary in size, lack sculptural decoration, and have chamfered stone frames.
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Mullioned windows of a simpler form continued to be used into the Renaissance and various Revival styles. Italian windows with a single mullion, dividing the window into two equal elements are said to be biforate, or to parallel the Italian bifore windows.