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Stained Glass
This category is devoted to the preservation, artful designs and the craft skills to make a stained glass piece, all questions concerning materials, tools, technical details, historical origins and modern techniques and how-to's will be found here.
317 Questions
How do you replace the window glass?
This is really one of those jobs best left to the pros. Seriously it costs less than $200 for parts and labor, and it's done in an hour or two. If you try yourself you will take much longer, and will most likely leak. If you are still set on doing it yourself you will need a special wire caulking saw (purchased at an automotive store), and lots of caulking. Remove the trim around the windshield not easy, but do-able. Take the wire and shove one end through the caulking on the existing windshied so that half the wire now is inside the truck, and half is outside. With you on the inside and a friend on the outside saw the wire back and forth until you have traced the entire windshield (carefull if you are trying to save the glass it is easy to break it at this stage). Remove the old glass, and clean all the the old caulking off. Put in new caulking, and install the new glass. It will probably leak. Good luck.
Why do stained glass windows have pictures on them in church?
Most often in Catholic churches, these pictures are the Stations of the Cross. The old church I attended as a child also had a brass plate under the window that explained each beautiful piece of the stained glass art along with the number of the Station of the Cross. These plaques were on the inside of course.
It is usually a small stained glass item that is hung in a window, often by suction cups or fishing line on a hook. It 'catches the sun' as all stained glass tends to do. They are great for gift giving as they tend to be only about $10.00 and up.
When were the first glass windows made?
Window pains were first invented during the Anglo-Saxon period. However, at this time, window pains were considered a luxury amenity.
It has been usefull in our lives because it portrays the art and it is also used in churches.
What will happen if the world ran out of gold?
Discovery channel has a program that answers this and it is scary. Things that require a daily timer or maintenance of some sort would go bad. Gates with electric locks would open and let out what ever is behind the gate from a dog to a lion. Gas valves would or could blow up. Anything that used electricity in some way would have a problem. On a local level people can live without electricity. It was done for centuries. Candles, gas lamps, oil lamps, and a fireplace can give light. The fireplace also can be used for cooking and heat. To keep things cold ice would have to be brought in everyday. It is possible to live without electricity.
A stained glass window is a substance that transmits different what of light?
A stained glass window is a substance that transmits different colors oflight
Why is the Jesse tree a common stained glass motif?
The Jesse tree is a common stained glass motif, especially in churches, because of its Christian meaning. The Jesse tree is considered the original family tree, as Jesse is the father of King David. The symbolism of the tree notates the birth of the Messiah.
Is leaded glass in a lamp harmful?
No, lead is only harmful if it exists in a form than can be introduced into the body. Lead glass or crystal is bound in the glass structure so as to render it inert.
How long does stained glass art take to make?
It all depends on the size and complexity of the stained glass window. If it is simple or small than it could take over 100 hours, but if it is big and complex than it could take multiple months or work and preparation.
Who invented stained glass windows in Medieval Times?
They panted it to get detail's, but it was more then that. stained glass is made by taking pieces of colored glass and setting it out to make shape of a picture. The stained glass is made by strips of led that are sottered together, forming a dark liner eliminate in the picture. The glass could be panted or not panted it was usly was panted to get such details. such as eyes, noses, and mouths into the picture. it could be stained to change the color.
What purpose id stained glass windows serve in the past?
because most people couldn't read or write in he olden days, vicars decided to put some scenes from the bible onto the windows so that people could learn about Jesus without having to beable to read or write.
What mineral is glass Windows made up of?
The basic idea is that glass is made out of heated sand, which is silicon dioxide and the key part of that is the silicon.
Chemicals for making common glass are Silica (silicon dioxide, the glassy part), and Sodium Carbonate (Soda Ash), lowers the melting point.
What is the name of a circular window of stained glass?
In a church, it's usually called a rosette window, but it could also be a mandella.
How much do stained glass windows cost?
The price of a custom stained glass window depends on the quality of materials, complexity of design and company offering window. They can cost anywhere from 150$ to 1,700$.
Do all churches have stained glass windows?
Probably. The liturgical arts were thought by the first Lutherans, like those today, to be great aides to worship and learning. That includes statuary, music, carvings, architecture, stained glass and ritual posture. It was the puritanical reforms, which Luther and his fellow reformers rejected, that purged Churches of the Sacred Arts.
What material is used to make a stained glass window?
Make a cartoon that outlines the design of the window.
How long ago was stained glass invented?
Probably at the same time that glass itself was invented. The sand from which glass is made naturally contains minerals that will cause the glass to be colored. The earliest glass made was was not clear but strongly colored (often dark, sometimes even nearly opaque).
The first glass makers therefor began working simultaneously in two opposite directions to make various types of glass that they wanted:
- Trying to develop ways to remove these minerals from the raw sand or to bleach out the resulting color in the finished glass, in an attempt to produce clearer more transparent glass. Due to the difficulties of completely removing all of these minerals (especially iron based minerals, which produce a brown color in the finished glass) the development of effective bleaching agents to remove these colors from the finished glass. (note: the purple bottles and purple insulators that are now popular on the antiques market were originally a clear transparent glass made using a permanganate bleaching agent to remove the "iron brown" color from the finished glass, after long exposure to ultraviolet light this bleaching agent broke down to manganese compounds that themselves colored the glass purple. Glass makers long ago replaced this bleaching agent with others that do not break down on exposure to ultraviolet light.)
- Trying to identify which specific minerals produced which specific colors in the finished glass, in an attempt to produce stained glass of desirable colors.
Why did churches use stain glass windows?
The purpose is not specifically recorded, and has been the subject of much commentary. In my opinion, the purpose was to light the church in a way that was primarily decorative. Rose windows had no pictures or words on them and were purely decorative. You will read that stained glass windows were a way of teaching the Bible to illiterate people, but if you go into a medieval church and look up at the windows, you will see that they pretty much all look alike, and can be distinguished best by the words that were painted and fired onto the glass.
I have provided a link to an article on medieval stained glass below. You can look at the pictures there and decide for yourself whether the idea was more educational or more decorative.
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Who invented stain glass windows?
We do not know who invented stained glass, but it was probably invented in western Europe in the Early Middle Ages. Colored glass had been used earlier for various purposes, and colored designs made of substances other than glass had been used in window areas, but we have no record or evidence of stained glass windows.
The earliest known reference to stained glass dates from 675 AD, at which time workers from France are recorded to have been brought to the monastery of St Peter at Monkwearmouth to glaze the windows.
There is a link below.
