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Selenium, like manganese, can be used in small concentrations to decolorize glass, or in higher concentrations to impart a reddish color, caused by selenium nanoparticles dispersed in glass. It is a very important agent to make pink and red glass. When used together with cadmium sulfide, [9] it yields a brilliant red color known as "Selenium Ruby".
The use of thicker glass produces deeper colour effects than traditional lead came stained-glass, especially when illuminated by bright natural or artificial light. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The technique achieved prominence in the stained glass literature of the 1950s and 1960s.
Stained Glass- an Illustrated History, Bracken Books, ISBN 1-85891-157-5; Painton Cowen (1985). A Guide to Stained Glass in Britain, Michael Joseph, ISBN 0-7181-2567-3; Husband, TB (2000). The Luminous Image: Painted Glass Roundels in the Lowlands, 1480-1560, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Lawrence Lee, George Seddon, and Francis Stephens (1976).
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Megan Barnett and Zoe Harrigan set up Woodside Stained Glass earlier this year, after becoming friends when they met on a course at the University of York. Working with glass, lead and knives at a ...
The turn of the 19th century was the height of the old art glass movement while the factory glass blowers were being replaced by mechanical bottle blowing and continuous window glass. Great ateliers like Tiffany , Lalique , Daum , Gallé , the Corning schools in upper New York state, and Steuben Glass Works took glass art to new levels.
Flashed glass, [1] or flash glass, is a type of glass [2] created by coating a colorless gather of glass with one [1] [3] [4] or more thin layers of colored glass. [5] This is done by placing a piece of melted glass of one color into another piece of melted glass of a different color and then blowing the glass.
When the dazzling 16-foot-high leaded stained- glass window arrived in Canton in 1913, it made front-page news—and postponed the new church’s dedication by a week because of a shipping delay.