"LEADED LIGHTS."
MADE TO ORDER. "Leaded Lights" go back to Elizabethan days. Glass was then a rare thing, and it could only be obtained in small pieces. These were made up into a window with strips of lead, and everybody knows how charming is the appearance of an old window of this kind. To-day we can get large sheets of glass; but the glamour of the older kind of window persists* and modern leaded lights in easements • are very popular. Most people, however, have to accept what they find in their houses, and in the majority of cases they find windows formed of one large "sheet, and whatever merit this type of window possesses by virtue of there being a minimum of corners to clean, its appearance is far less pleasant than that of a window divided into small panes or leaded lights. The effect of these latter may be simulated by the use of "Lanite," which is-a thin lend strip that can be stuck witii a special cement on to any window. It is quite simple to apply, and needs no cutting or structural alteration to the window The effect- of stained glass may also be obtained by using tlie material in conjunction with epeeial stains supplied for the purpose. t
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17861, 6 September 1923, Page 4
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