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Windows; a book about stained & painted glass (1897)

Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 148

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The largeness ofeffect was due first to the actual simplicity of the mainlines of the design, and then to breadth of colour, a breadthof colour all the more remarkable seeing the small pieces ofglass of which the broad surfaces were of necessity made up. Of course, too, the earlier the work the… … 66. S. Remi, Reims. 121 THE DESIGN OF EARLY GLASS. In twelfth century glass the white was greenish and ratherhorny in texture; ruby was sometimes streaky, and often tawnyor inclined to orange ; blue varied from deep indigo to palegrey, occasionally it was of the colour of turquoise ; yellow,dark or…

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