The tints of coloured glass may, it would seem, change in the course of time.
For the use ofcoloured glass in the windows of churches, we may probably find a similar origin.
Many kinds of decoration were in fashion, as zig-zag threadings on coloured glass.
Break such a bottle, each little bit is still a bit of coloured glass.
You have there the most splendid coloured glass, and the richest sculpture, and the grandest proportions of building, united to produce a sensation of pleasure and awe.
A picture in coloured glassis one of the most vulgar of barbarisms, and only fit to be ranked with the gauze transparencies and chemical illuminations of the sensational stage.
The Smeaton was now much wanted at Leith, where Mr Forrest had arrived from London on the 1st, with the plates of red-coloured glass; but the weather continued boisterous, and she was detained in the harbour of Arbroath with a gale at S.
The same author speaks with admiration of coloured glass-work imitating precious stones.
The majority are of bone, many are of bronze, and a few are composed of coloured glass or jet.
They are generally a ring of silver wire, plain, or twisted into a spiral form, and hung sometimes with beads of coloured glass or clay.
Swiss and Tyrolese peasant jewellery is largely composed of garnets or garnet-coloured glass set in silver filigree.
Window glass, coloured glass, and drinking glass were certainly made there in 1585, and their manufacture appears to have been carried on more or less steadily from that time onwards in various parts of the country.
The west window is of coloured glass, the subject being St. Margaret and St. John the Baptist.
In the north wall of the nave is a window of coloured glass, commorative of the late vicar, C.
The production of coloured glass for "mosaic" windows has become a separate branch of glass-making.
Prior has introduced an ingenious method of making small oblong and square sheets of coloured glass, which are thick in the centre and taper towards the edges, and which have one surface slightly roughened and one brilliantly polished.
Experiments were also tried with a violet-coloured glass, a violet opal, a transparent black and with glasses shading from red to blue, red to amber and blue to green.
Touches of colour may be added to vessels in course of manufacture by means of seals of molten glass, applied like sealing-wax; or by causing vessels to wrap themselves round with threads or coils of coloured glass.
A coloured glass held in a strong beam of light will in a short time become sensibly warmer than one that is clear and colourless.
A coloured glass window is in the nature of a mosaic.
Fine lines and hatchings are painted as with "silver stain," and in this respect only is there any approach to enamelling in the making of a coloured glass window.
Even the doors in the walls surrounding the kitchen-garden were adorned with windows of coloured glass at the top, which had a singular and beautiful brilliancy among the foliage.
In Cirencester I visited a beautiful Gothic church of great antiquity, with windows of coloured glass in pretty good preservation, and curious grotesque carvings.
This discovery took place early in the fourteenth century and made it possible to superimpose another colour upon white or coloured glass.
If we demand more light from our clerestory and at the same time insist on coloured glass, then we must use fewer strips of light-obscuring lead, which means fewer and larger pieces of glass.
It is bare of coloured glass, and is decidedly not an attractive feature.
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