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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar91912newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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March, 1912 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS .83
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"The Rainbow"—stained-glass window designed by Walter Shirlaw for a room in the residence of Mr. William T. Evans, Montclair, N. J. Stained and Leaded Glass for the House By Ida J. Burgess . -.:-,^:,sL\ . ^. q . ^. ^ - -- /l <^ s Pf^S-/^" Q /-^ Er^ 1 -■ - A, "; . :.-. - \ ■■ —■ .j ~ - ~- - "' MONG the architectural accessories that lend A few years ago, especially in the '8o's, when "builder's refinement to the dwelling house are to be architecture" became responsible for so much of the poor considered windows of stained and of leaded taste then prevalent in house construction, almost a mania glass. Stained glass, as distinguished from for stained glass, or what passed as such, spread over leaded glass, is that material which depends America. It is doubtful if any country, even during the primarily upon color for its effect, whereas darkest years of the dark ages, found itself so swamped leaded glass is dependent upon the lines of lead that form a with inartistic hideousness of the sort of the "stained glass" patterned network to hold the bits of plain glass that com- in question (one is impelled to use quotes) as did our home- pose the whole panel, and rarely contain color at all, al- makers at this time. The windows of poor design were though occasionally color is introduced in a slight degree constructed of poor glass atrociously colored—"pink, pur- into the decorative scheme. pie and sauterne," as someone describes the coloring of Originally the term "stained glass" referred to the ma- the windows unfortunately still within our recollection— terial treated by a chemical process, whereby a solution of though occasionally one met with an exception to the pre- silver was retained upon the surface of the glass as it was placed in a kiln for "baking," coming forth a yellow trans- parency wherever the silver solution had been applied. This staining of glass was much practiced at a time long after colored glass had reached its highest excellence, but, by one of those occa- sional misapplications of terms that of "stained glass" came to be applied to all work in colored glass, as used in windows, and has clung tenaciously to it, to the universal exclusion of the truer term, "colored glass."

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