What's the stained glass?

Question

There are some beautiful things, they said it's stained glass, but what't the meaning of staind glass?
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Answer 1

hope this helps: http://www.smith.edu/hsc/museum/ancient_inventions/stainedglass2.html

Answer 2

What is in the pictures is mosaics made with colored glass.
Colored glass is now called stained glass whether it is used to make mosaics, church windows, fused glass objects or just colored panes of glass.
Stained glass is called that because originally the pictures (like Christ's face) were made by using silver salts that turned brownish yellow and baked into the surface when the glass was heated in a kiln - very durable. Gradually additional colors of glass and coloring effects were created and it all got called stained glass.

Answer 3

I wouldn't call that stained glass, they are probably calling it such because they are using the same techniques to get colors of glass that stained glass makers use.

I would call those mosaics, not stained glass.

Stained glass, in the conventional usage, refers to freestanding glass artwork with lead joins/welds, usually windows, but also suncatchers, etc.

This is a yahoo! image search for "stained glass", you see, nothing comes up like what is on that page you've given.
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=stained+glass&fr=yfp-t-501&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8

Answer 4

A stained glass is:

–noun glass that has been colored, enameled, painted, or stained, esp. by having pigments baked onto its surface or by having various metallic oxides fused into it, as used in church windows, decorative lampshades, etc.


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[Origin: 1785–95]

—Related forms
stained-glass, adjective

Answer 5

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