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sunlight's translation into scripture, gospel for the illiterate, color you can pray inside.
means Colored glass, fitted together with strips of lead into images or patterns, used most famously in church windows to admit tinted light.
from A plain compound of two old English words: 'stained,' from Old French 'esteindre' (to color or tinge, ultimately from Latin 'tingere,' to dye), and 'glass,' from Old English 'glæs,' a Germanic word possibly tied to a root meaning 'to shine.' The craft itself is ancient — Romans and early medieval workers colored glass with metallic salts — but the English phrase is workmanlike, naming exactly what it is: glass that has been given color. The grand cathedral windows came later than the words; the language simply followed the maker's hand.
- medieval flow
- old glass is not actually thicker at bottom; that's myth
- gold rush
- true red glass needs dissolved gold to glow
- survivor
- Chartres kept windows by hiding them in WWII
- unhurried
- firing colors took kilns days at brutal heat
chartres cathedral rose window — 12th-century french cathedral with the largest surviving medieval rose window, 31 feet in diameter
sagrada familia windows — antoni gaudí's barcelona basilica features abstract stained glass with geometric patterns installed in the 1980s-2000s
louis comfort tiffany lamps — american artist created over 5,000 stained glass lamp designs from 1890s-1920s, worth thousands today