. Suger, the mid-12th-century abbot of Saint-Denis, described the new ambulatory of his church as shining “with the wonderful and uninterrupted light of most luminous windows, pervading [its] interior beauty” (De consecratione 4). Filled...

The oldest extant stained glass works date from the eleventh century, and a depiction of stained glass art appears in a tenth century manuscript. The design of these early examples, however, resemble that of Byzantine art, suggesting that the craft may...

A decorative panel comprising units of different coloured glass usually retained in a framework of lead beading (known as ‘cames’), the whole presenting a pattern, design or picture. The term is strictly misleading in that the glass used is...

The term stained glass refers either to the material of coloured glass or to the art and craft of working with it. Throughout its thousand-year history the term "stained glass" was applied almost exclusively to the windows of churches, cathedrals and...

Inserting pieces of stained glass at different angles and in precise geometric designs is an ancient craft of the Arabs. The making of glass is a very old art. The glass of the Phoenicians, Palestinians and Egyptians, dull green and opaque, is the...

When they saw the stained-glass windows I was making with the older students, my 10- to 12-year-olds begged, "Please, can we do that, too?" I knew I wouldn't be comfortable with them handling sharp bits of glass, using glass cutters or working...

A trio of thieves found a window of opportunity in the homes they burglarized. Starting in late May, police said, the thieves dressed as construction workers as they raided vacant homes that were either clearly being renovated or for sale in the Twin Cities area,...

If New York is a godless city, then Greenwich Village is its heathen hotbed. But sex shops and leather bars aside, nothing typifies Manhattan sin quite like an 1860 Methodist church that’s been converted into apartments, especially when a septuagenarian Texan billionaire nicknamed Wyly Coyote...