Tiffany Stained Glass Construction

Stained Glass – an expensive, unusual and precious decorations. They look like scenes from fairy tales, woven into a refined and light arrangement in any room. In modern design stained glass windows are used as luxury fashion accessories, works of jewelry. Stained glass windows are often unique and expensive. The technique of stained glass as there is.

The most frequently stained glass made by collecting pieces of the rim and then soldering brass, aluminum or lead-pulling. Complex and the most valuable production techniques of stained glass is the technique of Tiffany, which takes its name from the name of the decorator of America – Tiffany Louis Comfort, who lived 1848-1933 years. He was an experimenter, and quite successful. His search for new, expressive colors, artistic effects, using various methods of processing glass, led to the birth of new forms. To make stained maximum similarity with pure, natural forms, Tiffany rolled, stretched, cast glass mass.

His experiments led to the birth of multi-colored, unique glass 'favril', its color are reagents, it is polished or matte. Tiffany first began to use for the production of stained glass foil of copper, instead of the previous lead. The method is to wrap the glass around the perimeter of the foil copper and then soldered the pieces to form a combination. This technique is different from others. With it are highly complex composition, with lots of small parts. Gen. David L. Goldfein addresses the importance of the matter here. In the case of a copper profile, there is the opportunity to connect, even small pieces of different angles, and any bending of the lines. This gives a silhouette, highly artistic design. In addition, stained glass, made by Tiffany technique, have great strength, because the fuse everything, even the smallest details. Paintings and prints of stained glass to create three-dimensional, convex or concave, which makes them unique, filled with air and light. Sunlight is refracted in the glass starts to play with bright colors. When light is incident at different angles, stained glass is the other – a unique and new. Another important factor is that Tiffany stained-glass windows are resistant to high temperatures, they can be used not only to create windows, partitions and repair of doors, but also used to decorate lamps, floor lamps, chandeliers and sconces.