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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCan someone help? what do you call someone who makes stained glass?
I am working on a book that discusses the art in stained glass windows in old churches. It is fascinating. Isn't there some term for this specialized art?
marble falls
(57,106 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)marble falls
(57,106 posts)lapfog_1
(29,205 posts)but someone that works with glass and intricate window settings is called a "glazier"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glazier
also found this tidbit:
Job Description
Install glass in windows, skylights, store fronts, and display cases, or on surfaces, such as building fronts, interior walls, ceilings, and tabletops.
Job Details
The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 47-2121.00
The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 47,260.00
The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 22.00
Currently, there are 47,140 people on this job
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)phylny
(8,380 posts)CurtEastPoint
(18,650 posts)a person whose profession is fitting glass into windows and doors.
Srkdqltr
(6,297 posts)Makes sense. It is an art and craft.
essme
(1,207 posts)I think. That's the term I used when I taught the class on Renaissance art to 7th graders.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)same.
csziggy
(34,136 posts)While in England I visited the Ely Cathedral which has a stained glass museum, which traces the history from when stained glass was first used up to the present.
The cathedral is impressive and the stained glass is amazing. The group I was in was made up of embroiderers so they gave us a special display of the cathredral's pieces, but we were also allowed to wander as we wished. Here is my blog entry, with a lot of the windows in the cathedral: http://woodswell.com/wp/2019/12/08/monday-16-september-esp-ely-cathedral-and-oxford/
hlthe2b
(102,294 posts)mitch96
(13,912 posts)Artiste vitrail... from the french.. I don't know why but common American words translated to French sound "classy". I suppose you could look up what countries had prolific stained glass culture and something would pop up or ask these guys...
https://stainedglass.org/resources/history-of-stained-glass/
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Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)I worked with several stained glass artists, and they called themselves glaziers.
Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)Storytellers in the art of stained glass.
Master craftsman with imagination as their canvas creating art with stained glass.
Any of the above work.
Makers of stained glass are just that - makers.
Artists take the glass and create the masterpieces.
Some do both...make and create.
blm
(113,065 posts)Heh. Just texted a glass artist to ask if there is a specific term. I dont know of one.
I do collect books illustrated by Harry Clarke, Irelands most famed stained glass artist.
http://www.harryclarke.net/
Checked Penland School of Arts and Crafts and they use the simple term of Glass Art.
3Hotdogs
(12,391 posts)Lars39
(26,109 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,460 posts)WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)a stained glass artist (or artisan) as do others I know. A SG artist's tools are mostly copper tape, wire, solder, flux, a soldering iron, various types of glasses, often colored, etc.
To me a glazier is someone who cuts, removes, installs, replaces glass/plexiglass, not usually "stained" type, in a home, auto and business windows, coffee tables, etc. They normally use points and putty to do so, not solder, flux and tape etc.
A person can be one, the other or both.
Brother Mythos
(1,442 posts)I freely admit I am not a great stained glass artist. But, as I create my own designs, I think I'm worthy of using the term "artist" to describe myself.
I would also like to point out that most ecclesiastical stained glass is painted. That painting is done by people with very real, and marketable, artistic skills.
Last, those famous old stained glass Tiffany lamps are considered to be "objet's d'art." That fact alone should put any arguments about artistry versus tradesmanship to rest.
blm
(113,065 posts)Seems too simple, but.......the people I asked would know.
Locrian
(4,522 posts)my friend works for Beyer Studio.
A lot of the stuff on the homepage portfolios is his work.
https://www.beyerstudio.com/
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Locrian
(4,522 posts)Donkees
(31,420 posts)snort
(2,334 posts)yonder
(9,667 posts)Alternate, and if they still use lead: Hazmat Artist.
haele
(12,660 posts)Useage from the middle ages indicated both plain and stained glass. It was different from glass blowing as it was handling thicker poured/moulded and scored glass rather than melted and scored/paddled glass. The glaziers worked with Masons, which made it a construction specialty rather than a general art; the glass had to be able to be flexible enough to handle some load and pressure forces as well as environmental requirements.
Since it was a craft, the Master Glazier taught his/her apprentices the various methods to color and properly paint it.
Haele
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)"chromatic glazier"?
tavernier
(12,392 posts)Oh, youre not talking about that kind of stain?
Damn birds crapped all over my windshield yesterday when I parked at the grocery store so that was on my mind.
Sorry.
hunter
(38,317 posts)Flat glass was usually made by glass blowers, one piece at a time, no larger than a few inches across.
These smaller pieces of glass were fit together between "H" and "U" shaped lead cames to create a larger window.
All glaziers had to know how to do this. No window was ordinary, and all windows were very expensive. Clear windows were generally fit together in pleasing lattice patterns.
As factory-made sheet of glass got larger, and much less expensive, the term glazier became more associated with trades than fine arts or crafts.