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New Brunswick – Kirkpatrick Chapel at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

Maplewood – Morrow Memorial United Methodist Church.

Ann Arbor – Unitarian Universalist Church (Hobbs & Black).

Wellesley – Houghton Memorial Chapel at Wellesley College.

Baltimore – Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church.

Indianapolis – Second Presbyterian Church.

Second Presbyterian Church on South Michigan Avenue.

Macy's on State Street, formerly Marshall Field's.

Atlanta – All Saints' Episcopal Church.Colorado Springs, Colorado – First United Methodist Church.Mobile, Alabama - Christ Church Cathedral.Mexico City – Palacio de Bellas Artes.

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Montreal – Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Bourgie Pavilion (formerly Erskine and American United Church), twenty windows signed by Tiffany.

London – St Paul's Cathedral, four windows, two signed by Tiffany.

In order to cut drapery glass, the sheet may be placed on styrofoam, scored with a carbide glass cutter, and broken at the score line with breaker-grozier pliers, but a bandsaw or ringsaw are the preferred.ġ895 Tiffany Glass Decorating Company panel located inside Pittsburgh's Calvary United Methodist Church Stained glass in situ In order to cut streamer, fracture or ripple glass, the sheet may be scored on the side without streamers, fractures or ripples with a carbide glass cutter, and broken at the score line with breaker-grozier pliers. Each sheet produced from this artisanal process is unique. The ripples become rigid and permanent as the glass cools. A small diameter hand-held roller is manipulated forcefully over a sheet of molten glass to produce heavy ripples, while folding and creasing the entire sheet. The making of drapery glass requires skill and experience. Tiffany made abundant use of drapery glass in ecclesiastical stained glass windows to add a 3-dimensional effect to flowing robes and angel wings, and to imitate the natural coarseness of magnolia petals.

The glass was manufactured at the Tiffany factory located at 96-18 43rd Avenue in the Corona section of Queens from 1901 to 1932.ĭrapery glass refers to a sheet of heavily folded glass that suggests fabric folds. Tiffany wanted the glass itself to transmit texture and rich colors and he developed a type of glass he called " Favrile". His inventiveness both as a designer of windows and as a producer of the material with which to create them was to become renowned. Tiffany was an interior designer, and in 1878 his interest turned toward the creation of stained glass, when he opened his own studio and glass foundry because he was unable to find the types of glass that he desired in interior decoration.

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In his own words, the "Rich tones are due in part to the use of pot metal full of impurities, and in part to the uneven thickness of the glass, but still more because the glass maker of that day abstained from the use of paint". He admired the coloration of medieval glass and was convinced that the quality of contemporary glass could be improved upon. In 1865, Tiffany traveled to Europe, and in London he visited the Victoria and Albert Museum, whose extensive collection of Roman and Syrian glass made a deep impression on him. Tiffany glass refers to the many and varied types of glass developed and produced from 1878 to 1933 at the Tiffany Studios in New York, by Louis Comfort Tiffany and a team of other designers, including Clara Driscoll, Agnes F. Girl with Cherry Blossoms illustrates many types of glass employed by Tiffany including elaborate polychrome painting of the face, drapery glass for the dress, opalescent glass for the blossoms, streaky glass in the border, fracture-streamer glass in the background and what may be iridescent glass in the beads.