Stained Glass Gallery

Stained Glass Gallery

Stained glass is a form of art wherein the coloured glasses are cut into different shapes which are eventually put together to create a picture or an abstract.  Most of the stained glass works are put on several Churches while some are just intended to be collected and displayed in a stained glass gallery. 

Stained glass picture is held together using metal strips which are soldered to melt and stick the glasses together.  This soldered metal gives the glass the capacity to stay stabilized together.

Since stained glass is usually seen in Church windows, the designs made are usually picturing a particular saint or a specific scene in the Bible.  But this does not necessarily mean that every design of a stained glass should depict a scene.  As said earlier, it can be a combination of multi coloured glasses which simply give an abstract image.  For example, the very popular Rose Window of Notre Dame have their small geometric pieces held together forming a bigger geometric pattern.  It does not feature a particular scene but the details create a great and lovely impression.  The Rose Window does not depict a particular dramatic scene but t actually expresses the overall structure that holds supports the entire stained glass itself.  The structure is designed with many little petal-like hallows wherein the glass is set. 

Most of the time, especially when featuring a scene, the picture is being painted on the glass and is subjected for heating, enabling the paint to stably bond on the glass thus creating a stained glass.

A collection of stained glass creation is called a stained glass gallery.  It can be a collection of photos of different stained glass creations all over the world or it can be the actual stained glass collection itself.  In most cases, Actual stained glass gallery mounts their creation on the walls of the gallery itself rather than showing them off hanging on walls.

The glass used in stained glass is being colored in the manufacturing procedure of adding salt that causes it to hold on specific colours.  The glass is then set into flat sheets in order to properly be cut using a glass cutting tool.  Glasses provided can be made in different textures.  Sometime the surface is intended to be done with pebbly finishing this giving the creation a jewelled look especially when sunlight passes through it. 

Being in a stained glass gallery is indeed lovely because most of the time you can relate and get carried away by the intense emotion brought by the artist.