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 | | The color in a stained glass window was not painted on the glass but incorporated in it, mixed with it in the making whence the term pot-metal by which self-colored glass is known, i.e. |
 | | The pigment used by the glass painter was of course vitreous: it consisted of powdered glass and sundry metallic oxides (copper, iron, manganese, andc.), so that, when the pieces of painted glass were made red hot in the kiln, the powdered glass became fused to the surface, and with it the dense coloring matter also. |
 | | When the pieces of painted glass were afterwards glazed together and seen against the light, the desigji appeared in the brilliant color of the glass, its forms drawn in the uniform fl into which, at a little distance, lead work and painting lines became merged. |
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