Drapery Glass
By Janet Parkhurst
Know your Glass—Drapery Glass, Submitted by Liz WHAT IS “DRAPERY GLASS?” Drapery glass was invented by the glassmakers at Tiffany Studios to recreate, in glass, the folds of fabric...
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Know Your Glass—Dichroic Glass
By Admin Office
Dichroic Glass is a multi-layered coated glass borrowed from the optics industry and NASA. To create the coating Quartz Crystal, Titanium, Zirconium and other metal oxides are vaporized with an...
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WHICH GLASS MEDIUM?
By Admin Office
When Stained Glass Express opened in 1988, we were literally a Stained-Glass Store. We sold stained glass and the supplies that went with the copper foil method. We were a...
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Antique Glass—Know Your Glass
By Admin Office
A. Full Antique: Term applied to art glass produced by the historical mouth-blown cylinder method. The craftsman blows a glass cylinder which is annealed and cooled. The Cylinder is then...
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KNOW YOUR GLASS—IRIDESCENT
By Admin Office
Iridescent glass has been flash-fired with a micro-thin layer of metallic crystal, creating jewel-like colors in reflected light. Louis Comfort Tiffany started making a type of iridescent glass back in...
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TYPES OF GLASS
By Janet Parkhurst
TYPES OF GLASS Other than the basic opalescent and cathedral glass there are lots of break downs in these two main headings. Before I leave this paragraph, opalescent is...
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