Stained glass production process

Glass is everywhere now, with the development of technology in glass industry, emergence of new types of glass such as stained glass. Glass business is thriving, technology is constantly updated. So, how stained glass is manufactured out of it before?

Glass manufacture of needed raw materials, mostly glass formation, adjustment, intermediates and other, and some supporting materials. Main raw materials needed are oxides, and the network of oxidizing substances and auxiliary materials of antioxidant materials, colouring agents, reducing agents.

Stained glass production technology

First of all, is to pre-processing of raw materials, material, drying for processing and support materials for high temperature glass, making them uniform; then glass type, shape of liquid glass into finished products; then the heat treatment, get rid of the stress inside the glass ceramics, and so on.

These are glass production technology, as well as information about it. Now we can see a lot of stained glass, stained glass, mosaic glass appeared, glass technology has been greatly improved.

Stained glass is due to dissolve in a glass of transition metal ion or is caused by electronic transition of rare earth metal ions resulting from the absorption of light, mix in our glass solution to paint or paint after baking the glass surface, it can create a stained glass.

Stained glass in the ancient times there was already, the source may be near, stained glass is an art, emerged in the 10th century, is now the most complete, and most ancient stained glass dates back to the early 12th century, it was Germany Augsburg Cathedral Windows, painted figure of the Prophet.

Early window is a simple portrait painting, colors are more vivid, in the 12th century, window after the larger introduced narrative images, in the late 14th century, rang·kaxin created a silver stained glass painting, color of the selected species have become more.

Stained glassIn Renaissance and increasingly frail, past brightly colored translucent color and two-dimensional pattern is no longer popular, perspective and color enamel painted realism sets instead of stained glass art. However, in the 20th century, architects have designed a glass curtain wall, which makes stained glass Windows back up.