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Windows : a book about stained & painted glass (1909)

Day, Lewis F. (Lewis Foreman), 1845-1910 · London : B. T. Batsford · leaf 301

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285 painted more after the fashion of bold mosaic diaper; but the effect, though satisfactory enough, is not such as to convince one that that is the better way. To heraldry, and especially to shields of arms surrounded by mantling (234), quarries form an excellent background, but only in the event… … 234. Heraldic Glass, Ockwells. imposed, or rather into which it is inlaid. Odds and ends of quarries need to be accounted for as the continuation of unbroken quarries above and below. Except in a quarry window, it is a mistake to break up the background, as was sometimes done, into fragments of…

Glass painting and staining · Windows

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