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Aurora Glass Visit their site for beautiful stained glass for every room in your home.
Alley Kat's Glass - stained glass gifts, custom windows and doors, repairs, and supplies. MS
Althouse Stained Glass Studio - gallery of stained glass images and stained glass supplies.
Bournemouth Stained Glass - Shop & Teaching Centre for stained glass supplies and tuition. UK
Cathedral Crafts - creating, restoring, and preserving pieces in glass. MN
First Impressions - stained glass keepsakes with baby's name, date of birth, and hand and foot prints.
Frank Thompson Studio - offers handcrafted artistic doors and windows. SW LA
Gilbertson's Stained Glass Studio - featuring stained, etched, and beveled glass, tiffany lamps and reproductions, or your custom designs. Contact us for an estimate. WI
Glass Designs.com Online gallery for unique art glass pieces by European and American designers and master glassblowers. Contemporary vases, bowls, candlesticks, for your home, office or private collection. TX
Glass Design Studio - lead resin method to make stained glass windows, door and floor panels, skylights, and mirrors.
Hauser Art Glass and Willet Studios
Jacqueline Winch Stained Glass Designs - offers stained glass windows, gifts, and custom work.
Jersey Art Stained Glass Studio - leaded glass restoration, conservation, and custom designed work, with educational information for owners and caretakers of stained glass. NJ
Kessler Studios - designers of contemporary stained glass windows and mosaic artwork. OH
Medieval Glass Industries Ltd. Our passion for stained and decorative glass is global; we are committed to providing affordable, custom designed decorative glass to you - wherever you are in the world. We constantly challenge the status quo with innovative as well as classic designs!
Nathan Allan Glass Studios Cast glass products, slumped glass floor tiles, sinks, countertops and a variety of accessories. Partitions, windows and shower enclosures and more.
Plachte-Zuieback Art Glass - stained and etched glass windows for synagogues and churches, designed, fabricated, and installed. Contemporary glass Judaica.
Shadetree Studios - working on original and restoration projects. MI
Stained Glass Terrariums - by Ron Gladkowski, as well as planters and flower vases in the Tiffany tradition.
Stevenson Stained Glass Studio - stained glass for home or office, including doors, windows, NC

Using Stained Glass In the Entryway
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The entryway is the most important part of the home when it comes to creating a first impression. Custom glass work can be used to transform a dull door into an important and dynamic part of a home's total environment. It is impossible to say what type of glass or technique is best for residential use. Each home has its own character and each homeowner their own tastes. The law even takes a hand in shaping decisions for glass for entryways. According to building codes, all --glass used in entryways must be either laminated safety glass or tempered glass unless the door light or sidelight is made from leaded glass which is less prone to shatter in large pieces than a single sheet of glass. Glass may be used to let light in or to insure privacy or even a bit of both. Opalescent glass can exclude light. Beveled glass can light a foyer with prismatic refractions. Etched glass can accent a scene without obscuring it. The most important thing to consider in selecting glass for an entryway is the manner in which the glass work harmonizes with the home and its surroundings.

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Glass Art Glossary: A Variety of Techniques

Leaded Glass - This refers to the production of panels or windows made up of pieces of glass held together by strips of lead called "cames" which are grooved on each side to hold the glass together. Lead is used because it is soft and easy to bend around oddly shaped pieces of glass. The cames are joined at intersections with solder. Because of the leads elasticity a leaded window must be reinforced with rigid steel bars soldered across the back of the window. Brass cames may also be used but Aurora discourages the use of brass in a coastal environment due to the prevalence of corrosion. Additionally glass may be joined by using a combination of copper foil on the edges of the pieces and solder but this technique lacks the soundness and durability of traditional leading. Almost all work produced by Aurora uses traditional lead cames. A leaded glass panel may incorporate simple clear flat glass or a variety of types of glass may be used to create patterns and images. Beveled glass may be incorporated in leaded designs as well. A single window may incorporate several glass working techniques and up to several thousand individual pieces of glass.
Stained Glass. This term is usually used to apply to anything made of leaded glass that incorporates colors and patterns. This is not precisely correct. Colors and patterns may be created using glass in a variety of ways, beginning with the pigmentation of the glass during its manufacture. A wide variety of transparent red and blue glasses are produced in this manner. The addition of white glass to a colored glass during manufacturing produces a semitransparent or opalescent glass. Texture may also be imparted to a sheet of glass during the manufacturing process. The many types of glass available provide one part of the glass artisan's palette. Some masterworks in glass have, in fact, been created by simply using a different piece of glass for each different color or shade for each segment of the image depicted. However, glass may also be enhanced by painting on its surface with pigments mixed with powdered glass which are then melted to the surface in a kiln for a permanent image. Additionally, silver stain may be used to give glass a yellowish tint (this process gave birth to the term "stained glass").
Etched Glass. Glass may be etched or carved with abrasives or chemicals or even mechanically engraved to create interesting, often quite complex designs. In addition to window and door panels, etching techniques may be used to create striking gift items. Etching can be confined to the surface or may be continued deep into the glass for three dimensional effects. Deep carved plate glass door panels for entryways are becoming quite popular.
Dalle de Verre. Also called faceted glass, this technique involves fixing thick pieces of glass in a medium such as resign or concrete to form a panel. Each piece of glass is chipped at the edges to give it a faceted effect, hence the name. Impressive, quite large panels for ecclesiastical and commercial settings can be created using this technique.
Fused or Slumped Glass. Glass may be fused together to form three-dimensional creations. By using pieces of glass of different colors, excellent effects may be created These various techniques may be combined to create an almost limitless palette of effects.

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