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Stained glass

Historically, stained glass adorned churches and cathedrals from the 11th-12th century Romanesque era. In modern time, stained glass is largely used on restaurants, hotels, entrances of large buildings, hospitals, government offices, and homes to add a focal point of bright color.

How it's made:
After the composition is set to create hundreds of colors within the glass, the desired design is drawn using a special pigment on top of the glass and is subsequently baked. This process is repeated 2-3 times as necessary in order to ensure that the colored pigment is completely fused onto the glass.
Then the stained glass artwork is completed by assembling the glass pieces using an H shaped channel.

1. Classic Stained Glass: 
This technique is the most commonly used from the Romanesque era through the Middle Ages. It is the most traditional and classicalmethod that has been widely used in the churches of Europe, the United States, and elsewhere around the world.
The retention period of stained glass even in direct sunlight and the varying climate conditions is over 1000 years. 
Stained glass is cut piece by piece following the colors, light and shade, then painted on with grisaglia, a pigment that contains iron, and is finally baked in a special oven.
The final pieces are assembled with lead wire that is soft and pliable, and then finish off with stucco.

2. Tiffany: Development of glass-making techniques lead to the development of stained glass in a variety of ways. The name Tiffany came from an American, Louis Comfort Tiffany, who developed the technique around 1900.
The best feature of this process is that colored glass is cut following the shape and texture of the desired object and then fused again in order to hold its colorful, elegant, and modern elements.
By placing different colored glass into a solid one-colored glass, Tiffany created stained glass with desired pattern and texture.
The glass must be cut very precisely so there is almost no gap between the glass pieces that are to be assembled. Generally, grain is formed in the process of coating the pattern onto the glass so caution must be taken during the cutting stage. This glass then is cut following the design then wrapped around with bronze tape, called rame, then fused with lead. Then this lead is changed to bronze or black color so it looks like bronze, not lead

3. Collage: Colored glass cut to fit the design put on the opaque glass instead of the lead channel.

4. Fusion: Glass pieces and glass powder are placed on top glass that is approximately 1cm thick and then baked. When the whole glass plate is baked, the glass pieces and powder are fused onto the plate then finished.

 

 
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Before and after [paintingworks Francesco JR Lim]
Face of Jesus(part) [paintingworks Francesco JR Lim]
Thick glass
Glass cutting
sample color glass
 
red color glass
 
 
 
 
 
cylinder glass

*photo by Francesco JR Lim

 
 
 

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