Paint Your Wagon
Using Decorative Art Glass In Your Home
Have you really considered the language used for art glass? Most find these terms both numerous and perplexing, so much so that I threw a ringer right in the title. For instance, mica isn’t glass at all (as most of us learned in science class). Rather, mica’s a mineral that flakes nicely into translucent sheets. Thus many find it ideal for use in making lamp shades, such as the famous “coolie” shades made by Dirk van Erp.
Although you can’t go wrong using the term “art glass” to refer to most kinds of decorative glass in period lighting, windows, doors, or hand-blown vases, there are terms that are much more accurate and specific. First let’s start with a tough one: the difference between stained and leaded glass. In European cathedral windows of centuries past, the stain glass is actually colored glass, which has been painted with vitreous oxides and then fired, with or without the application of silver nitrate. What makes this stain glass leaded is that individual pieces of the composition are held together with lead cames, which are easily recognizable as the rib-like dark material between the bits of light-filled glass.
Fortunately, nowadays things are much simpler. Those who use the term “stained glass” today are simply referring to any window with colored glass. Any clear glass windows that are leaded are simply just called “leaded.”
Artisans use minerals to give colored glass its tint. But remember, not all stained glass is transparent. The term “opalescent” is used for translucent stained glasses. Yet what is considered to be opalescent glass isn’t transparent; rather it’s milky. Further, it can have more than one color in a sheet. Tiffany windows are a noteworthy example of opalescent glass.
{Another notable example of this is the windows by Greene & Greene, who layered their glass the same way as Tiffany, but they used copper foil and lead overlay to enhance the dimensional quality of their compositions.} Greene & Greene’s glass is actually very common. It’s iridized on one side, so it has the appearance of a rainbow. Both Frank Lloyd Wright and Tiffany have used the same glass.
In 1894, Tiffany trademarked its version of this shimmering opalescent glass and called it Favrile. People really valued this iridescent glass, as its surface appeared to change colors when seen from different angles. Although many other companies made their own versions of this iridized glass, no one else used the term Favrile.
Now that we’ve clarified mica, stained glass, leaded glass, opalescent, iridescent, and Favrile, what exactly are slag and slumped? The sheets of opalescent glass used in Arts and Crafts light fixtures is known as slag glass. (The term “slag” refers to the undocumented belief that slag from iron smelting works was added to the glass for color.) As for slumped glass, that’s glass that’s fired in the kiln so it will curve. Some glass artisans will actually climb into the kiln to manipulate the hot glass to their liking. To create glass shades, the hot glass is actually “slumped” over a bowl. With this technique, artisans can achieve effects ranging from delicately folded glass in tulip-like shades to futuristic wild shapes.
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Lee Marvin – Wandering Star
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