Colored glasses

Colored glasses. Colored glasses are a widespread product.

Glass is an hard and transparent material that can be colored in many ways, to obtain fine ornaments and particular windows.

It's possible to color a piece of glass in many ways: by precipitation of colloids, by colored inclusions, by addition of coloring ions, by precipitation of colloids, by colored inclusions, by light scattering, or by colored coatings.

History of colored glasses and stained glass windows

The most common method in Middle Ages to create green and red glass was by adding copper to the assemblage.

The addition of copper to the batch ensued in the creation of red, blue and green.

This technique was practiced since ancient times.

So, the predominance of red and blue in Romanesque and Gothic glasses looks axiomatic.

There are examples of richly-colored blue glasses produced in the medieval period using soda, in fact early medieval glass was soda-based.

Colored glass window for your rooms: make your house unique

Glass coloring is an art, as handicraft colored glass objects are masterpieces of art.

If you want colored glasses, contact Vetreria Artistica F.R., an Italian handicraft glassworks.

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