Antique glass can be used in any piece you make. It makes beautiful flowers, nice backgrounds, entire panels.
The only drawback is the price. It's expensive! Drawn Antique , also called semi-antique, machine antique or new antique, is a simulated full-antique. The textural striations are mechanically applied in these types of glass. Quality is excellent and cost is less than full antique. Drawn Antique makes nice backgrounds and borders.
Actually, it can be used anywhere in a panel. Make sure you cut it with the striations all going in the same direction. The linear striations are scribed into the hot glass surface. Quality is excellent and cost is considerably less than full antique. Artique is used the same way as Drawn Antique.
It is a machine made "reamy" glass, created by combining glasses of mis-matched compositions. The different glasses "oppose" each other when they are stirred together, creating artistic 3-D swirls. Baroque glass works well in almost all designs. It makes wonderful skies, water, flowers, just about anything you can think of. The clear baroque makes a beautiful background.
You do have to work with the swirls when you cut the pieces, so that adjoining pieces of glass have the swirls connected at the right place. Otherwise, the panel look jumbled. Baroque is one of the types of glass that I love to use for backgrounds, especially where I need "movement". Bevels are usually clear, thick plate glass with edges that have been ground and polished to an angle other than 90 degrees. Transmitted light is refracted and a prism-like effect results. They come in many sizes and shapes as well as clusters or sets.
The clusters or sets make up a design entirely of bevels that can be incorporated in a stained glass panel. Single bevels make beautiful exterior and internal borders. Cathedral Glass. Cathedral Glass is transparent single color sheet glass, with smooth or textured surfaces.
Cathedral is one of the types of glass that beginners find easy to cut. Catspaw Catspaw is a surface texture resulting from the chilling of hot glass on a cool table. The appearance is likened to the paw prints of a cat. Catspaw can be used as a feature in a panel. You wouldn't want to make the entire panel out of Catspaw, but it might work well for flowers, animals, grass Crackle Crackle glass is made like antique glass.
The hot cylinder of glass is dipped in liquid, causing radical, random fissures in the glass. The cylinder is then reheated and further blown to heal the surface fissures. Resulting surface resembles the texture of alligator skin.
Crackel Glass makes a nice background glass and it works well for borders. It is expensive compared to machine made stained glass. Dichroic Dichroic is a glass that has been coated with one or more ultra-thin crystalline layers of transparent metal oxides.
The oxides enhance reflections at specific wavelengths of light resulting in striking effects with a brilliant change of color as you move your head while you're looking at it. It's very expensive and is usually sold by the square inch instead of the standard square foot.
Dichroic Glass is mainly used in jewelry making and fusing in a kiln , but it also works well in contemporary patterns with just a little bit used throughout the panel to catch the viewers eye. Drapery Glass Glass sheets with multiple dramatic folds, looking similar to folds in hanging drapes. Drapery Glass is a specialty glass, not used very often by the hobbyist, but I just wanted you to know about it. It's difficult to cut due to the huge variation in thickness.
I've seen it used in contemporary designs giving a wonderful effect, and, of course, it can be used for flowing robes as seen in many church windows. Originally popular in Victorian windows, English Muffle glass is being reintroduced in both restoration and contemporary stained glass work. English Muffle glass is known for its traditional muted colors, its highly refractive texture and crystalline quality. The texture appears as a non-directional ripple, allowing for minimal waste.
English Muffle is one of my favorite glasses to work with. It's perfect for traditional and Victorian panels. Fracture and Streamer This is one of the many unique types of glass manufactured by the Bullseye Glass Company. Fracture and Streamer glass makes a beautiful background for a floral theme panel, or if the panel is a scene, it works well to emulate flowers in the distance.
It's also nice for a beautiful box. Gluechip Gluechip is texture created on the surface of cold glass by applying hot animal glue and allowing it to dry under controlled temperature and humidity conditions.
As the glue dries and contracts, it chips the glass surface in a natural and attractive pattern, likened to frost on a window pane. Glue chip glass makes nice borders, and the lighter colors make good background glass. Iridescent Iridescent is a surface treatment in which a layer of metallic oxide is bonded to the hot glass surface just after sheet-forming, resulting in a colorful, shimmering effect.
The barn, fields and trees were made of streaky opalescent glasses. A light blue and white wispy glass was used for the sky. Finally, a very dark streaky glass was used for a border. The pattern for this panel is available in the pattern section of the website. Go to Patterns. Glass Textures Note: Glass pictures shown are of an 8" x 10" piece of glass. Clear Artique Glass Artique - Often called 'semi-antique' this is a machine-made glass which resembles very expensive, hand-made 'antique' glass.
Artique glass has a surface texture used mostly on cathedral glass which has very distinctive fine lines that lightly distorts the optical clarity. Artique glass is most often used as a background glass where some distortion is desired, such as in external house windows. Blue on Clear Baroque Glass Baroque - Unique textured glass with heavy surface texture and lots of swirls.
Most often made of light colored cathedral glass or a combination of a darker opalescent color swirled into a light cathedral background glass. Artique glass is generally used as a background glass where some distortion is desired, such as in external house windows.
Also used where a special effect is desired. As the glue dries, the glue shrinks and bits of glass are chipped away, producing a 'fern-like affect. Used most often for background glass where medium optical distortion is desired. Clear glue chip glass is often used with bevels in windows.
Clear Granite Glass Granite - This texture is primarily available only in clear glass. It has a very heavy random bump pattern on the surface. The texture is similar to hammered, below, however, the granite texture is more intense and more random.
Light diffusion and distortion is extreme. The heavily textured glass is often used as a background glass where significant optical distortion is desired, such as in bathroom windows.
Clear Hammered Glass Hammered - A surface texture similar to hammered brass or copper. Small, round, smooth bumps applied to one surface of cathedral glass. Used most often as a background glass where a very heavy texture with significant optical distortion is desired. Also used in bathroom windows where significant optical distortion is desired.
Clear Iridized Waterglass Iridescent - Not a surface texture, but a special surface finish. Finish produces a metallic sheen creating a rainbow affect. Affect varies depending upon the color of the glass it is applied to.
Darker glass colors produce the most distinct rainbow colors. Much more subtle affect on lighter colored glass. See clear glass at left and black glass below. Generally used where a very special effect is desired, such as for angel wings or candle holders. Black Iridized Waterglass Iridescent - Darker glass colors produce the most distinct rainbow colors from iridized glass.
The rainbow affect is much more subtle on lighter colored glass. See black glass at left and clear glass above. Clear Mirrored Krinkle Krinkle - This texture is available only in clear or mirror glass. It has a very heavy random line pattern on the surface. The heavily textured Krinkle glass is primarily used as a background glass. This is a very slight texture added to the surface with a rough roller while the glass is molten. Scottish Stained Glass has decades of custom stained glass experience and can help you achieve anything.
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