The paint is then fused to the surface of the glass by firing in a kiln. After the final firing is the glazing process. The pieces of glass are joined by strips of lead which are soldered together.

Some of the rarest surviving 18th-century stained glass in Britain has been fitted with environmental protective glazing to protect it from weathering which has been worsened by “climate change”.

Clarke Davis, 1890 Glazing the clerestory: the east window of Henry VII chapel… by Alan Younger, in Journal of Stained Glass vol. XXIV, 2000 The east window of St Margaret’s Westminster by Hilary ...

The mention of stained glass often brings to mind Louis Comfort Tiffany and his magnificent windows. The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw a wave of German, Austrian and Swiss immigrants ...