Artisans, like worshipping pilgrims of the day who made pilgrimages to holy sites, traveled from church to church to work on stained glass window projects during the Medieval period. Most stained ...

Mesopotamian potters discovered the method for making multi-colored opaque glass beads around 2750 BC. Circa 1100 AD, a window of colored glass was documented in Germany. Colored glass windows were ...

Stained glass windows were a hallmark of upward-mobility sensibilities, an aspirational gesture for people enjoying the fruits of boomtown St. Paul. For seven years I lived in an old house built by a ...

I think we can all agree that the idea of stained glass sounds a) old fashioned b) complicated and c) extravagant. We were thinking that, too, until we started to see the translucent colored material ...

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Colorful glass has been around for thousands of years, beginning with the ancient Egyptians, according to the Stained Glass Association of America. And of course, lovers of historic architecture know ...

When you think of stained glass, you might think of cathedrals or mosques. Or in homes, you might think of Victorian architecture—and who could blame you? Stained-glass windows have become less common ...

New nanophotonics research could expand the color palette for companies in the fast-growing market for glass windows that change color at the flick of an electric switch. A team of researchers has ...