Stained Glass Roundels
Stained glass roundels are single pieces of colourless or even non-pot-metal glass that can be of any shape including square, round, oval and even rectangular. The roundels can also be painted with self contained designs. Very rarely you will come across stained glass roundels that have dimensions greater than three hundred millimetres.
Stained glass –imported from Poland
Many of the stained glass roundels that are available in the UK are imported from Poland. Companies like Tetra Glass have long years of experience in importing these stained glass roundels from Poland and have stocks of various stained glass items that can cover more than six thousand square metres of stained glass and which have more than one hundred and sixty different stained glass colours. The company also stocks about thirty thousand stained glass roundels and five hundred glass bullions.
Tetra Glass
Tetra Glass has a huge range of stained glass roundels in stock and most of these roundels are made according to the traditional methods which mean that they are made by hand. In order to create outstanding stained glass roundels, the artist must gather some molten glass on a pontil rod which will be spun between a pair of graphite boards. After attaining a required diameter the roundel will then be broken off from the rod and it is then put in an oven where it is left to cool.
Making stained glass roundels requires a lot of skill on account of the fact that the production methods are manual rather than automatic and each piece therefore comes out looking very unique.
Two sizes
When choosing stained glass roundels, you will need to pick from two sizes which include the sixty millimetre diameter as well as the eighty millimetre diameter. If you want some other size, then you will need to place a special order for it.
Tetra Glass has a range of stained glass roundels on offer. Though you can see their works on a computer screen, this is not the best way of evaluating them as you need to look at them in real life so that you can see the true colours as well as quality of the stained glass roundels. For this, it is necessary to hold the stained glass roundels in natural light so that its real character shows through.
The Swiss stained glass roundels are a good example of the best in roundels. This roundel is hand painted and has a lot of detail in it. This particular roundel was made in the year 1905 and has an inscription on it that says, “Jacob Brunner, bon Brunnadern Toggenburg”. The roundel stands out and has a very decorative border which includes rams heads that are beautifully painted and in addition there is some fruit as well as a man as well as the face of a lady.
In the centre of this very impressive stained glass roundel, there is a water fountain as well as the helmet of a knight and there is also a man dressed in Swiss type clothes. The glass is painted blue and is vivid and strong and a chain is attached to the roundel so that you can hang it from a window.
