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ART OF STAINED GLASS Victorian windows have a recognizable style that is partially attributable to the glass that characterizes it. Should you wish to reproduce this look, it is important that you be acquainted with the types of glass used during that period. Mystic Glass by Paul Wissmach Glass is one such example. A somewhat seedy glass is an excellent facsimile and is available in a wide variety of colors from the traditional Victorian palette, which leaned heavily on lightly tinted, transparent greens, ambers, and copper blue, highlighted sparingly with a few pieces from the red/pink/purple sprectrum. These warm colored highlights were sometimes opalescent - the blue/green/amber glass was overwhelmingly cathedral glass. MYSTIC GLASS 
Texture was used liberally in the Victorian style, and English muffle was a mainstay of mass-produced leaded glass windows of that era. Paul Wissmach Glass produces a line of English muffle that is especially brilliant. The photograph below shows the pattern somewhat larger than real life. ENGLISH MUFFLE 
Flemish glass is a catch-all term for glasses that sometimes can look quite different, depending on the manufacturer. It was used to make a bold textural statement. FLEMISH (PAUL WISSMACH GLASS) 
Pilkington's version of "Flemish" a large-patterned glass with subtle water-like deformation, that shows up very nicely when utilized in a large surface. Note that despite the name, this kind of glass was not available in Victorian times and falls under the category of architectural glass. It is presented here to show how glass bearing the same name may not be the same thing at all. FLEMISH (PILKINGTON) 
While mouth-blown glass was available to Victorian artisans, it was rarely used, as most of their production was done on a mass scale, and even back then the price of mouth blown glass was prohibitive. Nowadays, the look of of mouth-blown glass is quite credibly, and less expensively, reproduced with Spectrum's line of Artique glass. MOUTH-BLOWN/ARTIQUE 
The bulk of Victorian glass windows was made from the likes of Mystic Glass and English Muffle. |