Category Archives: Glass

Seventy-Seven (it’s not Sunset Strip)

Posted on March 7, 2013 by maryannadair

It is apparently seventy-seven (77) years since the French designer Jean Patou died.  Interestingly, seventy-seven happens to be the smallest positive integer requiring five syllables in English and the number of digits of the 12th perfect number. It is also the number … Continue reading →

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The Carny’s coming to town

Posted on February 18, 2013 by maryannadair

Carnival glass is moulded or pressed glass, with a patterned shiny metallic, or ‘iridescent‘ surface shimmer. The keys to its ‘appeal’ were that it looked superficially like the very much finer and very much more expensive blown iridescent glass by … Continue reading →

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Goodbye Ruby Tuesday – Who Could Hang a Name on You?

Posted on February 13, 2013 by maryannadair

Ruby Glass; (aka Cranberry Glass, Gold Ruby Glass or Rubino Oro as it is known by glass workers) is a red glass made by adding gold(III) oxide to molten glass.  However, tin, in the form of stannous chloride, is sometimes … Continue reading →

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Leonard French – stained glass window artist

Posted on December 2, 2012 by maryannadair

The term stained glass can refer to coloured glass as a material or to works produced from it; such as windows of churches and other significant buildings. Louis Comfort Tiffany in America specialized in secular stained glass, mostly of plant … Continue reading →

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