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

Day, Lewis F. (Lewis Foreman), 1845-1910 · London : B. T. Batsford · leaf 310

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294 diaper-like all-over pattern, but of a panel, designed to be glazed in quarries. Here, again, is an approximation to the seventeenth century practice of leading up pictures in rectangu- lar panes, but only an approximation. There is this important difference, that the quarry window starts from… … the heraldic lozenge, all upon clear white glass. The effect is delicate and silverv. and (a point of some importance in domestic work) no appreciable amount of light is excluded ; but, though the main forms are designed within the lead lines, one feels that these have not been considered enough,…

Glass painting and staining · Windows

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