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the art and craft of working with stain glass. Either by the constructing of a glass panel with many pieces of different coloured and shaped glass in a mosaic type fashion, or the staining of glass panels.
Location
Stained glass windows were commonly used in churches Stained glass windows in houses were particularly popular in Victorian era and many domestic examples survive. In their simplest form they typically depict birds and flowers in small panels
Ability
Stained glass, as an art and a craft, requires the artistic skill to conceive the design, and the engineering skills necessary to assemble the decorative piece, traditionally a window, so that it is capable of supporting its own weight and surviving
Description
Glass was traditionally coloured by adding metallic oxides to the glass while in a molten state. (Copper oxides were added to produce green, cobalt for blue, gold was added to produce red glass and silver nitrate gives a yellow effect ranging from pale lemon to deep orange).
Closely
Related Activities
There are no obvious closely related activities to the working with stain glass, although it needs much of the knowledge and shares many of the skills associated with; Art , sculpture, crafts, conservation and history.
Further
Reading
In modern windows, copper foil is now sometimes used instead of lead. For further technical details, see Lead came and copper foil glass-work
Cost
of glass stains were introduced, most of them coloured by ground glass particles. They were a form of enamel. Painting on glass with these stains
Level of Demand
The table below shows the maximum levels of demand that this activity requires. NOTE: These are not entry levels or levels of requirement and has nothing to do with ability.
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