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Forest glass (Waldglas in German) is a type of medieval glass produced in northwestern and central Europe from approximately 1000–1700 AD using wood ash and sand as the main raw materials and made in factories known as glasshouses in forest areas. [1]
A lump of glass was found at Eridu in Iraq that can be dated to the twenty-first century BC or even earlier; it was produced during the Akkadian Empire or the early Ur III period. [4] The glass is of blue colour, which was achieved with cobalt; such glass is generally known as Egyptian blue. Thus, such technique was attested in Eridu long ...
Medieval stained glass is the colored and painted glass of medieval Europe from the 10th century to the 16th century. For much of this period stained glass windows were the major pictorial art form, particularly in northern France, Germany and England, where windows tended to be larger than in southern Europe (in Italy, for example, frescos were more common).
Hundreds of fragments of a medieval stained glass window have been returned to a Lincolnshire church after nearly 80 years. The 14th Century window from St Andrew's Church in Heckington was ...
Anglo-Saxon and later Medieval glass in Britain: Some recent developments. Medieval Archaeology 22:1-24. Heck, M. & P. Hoffmann 2002. Analysis of Early Medieval Glass Beads: The raw materials to produce green, orange and brown colours. Microchimica Acta 139:71-76. Henderson, J. 1992. Early medieval glass technology: the calm before the storm.
Medieval technology is the technology used in medieval Europe under Christian rule. After the Renaissance of the 12th century , medieval Europe saw a radical change in the rate of new inventions, innovations in the ways of managing traditional means of production, and economic growth. [ 2 ]
James Henry Nixon worked on the restoration of the fa amous medieval stained glass at St. Neots in Cornwall as early as 1829. [4] The firm became a favourite of Charles Winston , which helped them gain prestigious commissions like the east window of Lincoln Cathedral. [ 5 ]
Stern, E. Marianne, Roman Byzantine, and Early Medieval Glass 10 BCE-700 CE : Ernesto Wolf Collection, (Ostfildern-Ruit: Haje Cantz,2001). Stern, E. Marianne, "Glass Producers in Late Antique and Byzantine Papyri," in New Light on Old Glass, ed. by Christopher Entwistle and Liz James, (London: The British Museum, 2013), 82-88.