Facts About Leaded Glass
Written on January 10, 2009 – 3:37 pm | by Deepak Shrivastava
The term leaded glass refers to all glass constructions held in place by lead, copper or zinc frames. Lead is a unique metal it is extremely soft in its purest form, has little mechanical strength, almost no elasticity, and melts at relatively low temperatures. Leaded glass is commonly used in windows, but also doors, fanlights, sidelights and other glazed features. Leaded glass can mean two different things, glass with lead in it and glass with lead dividers.
There are a few tools you will need unique to leaded glass construction. You will need a cementing product specifically for leaded glass whiting or sawdust, two natural bristle brushes and several layers of newspaper to cover your work area.
As the original stained and leaded glass techniques involved time consuming and arduous processes, modern and simpler methods have been developed. However, the modern processes for producing authentic stained and leaded glass continue to require the cutting of individual segments of colored glass and the joining of such segments with grooved lead strips or came.
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