Note 8: — ON SOME OF THE ARTS AND CRAFTS ALLIED TO ARCHITECTURE. AN ADDRESS TO THE STUDENTS OF THE ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION

The peculiar beauty of a stained glass window, for instance, is entirely dependent upon this frank acknowledgment of conditions. A screen of transparent colour and pattern, defined and united by leads, and held in position by iron bars. Directly any attempt is made to overstep its natural limits—to make it look like a painted picture, to get chiaroscuro and vanishing points, or to try to ignore the leading as an essential condition of its existence—the charm and the joy of it is lost. There is a distinct character and beauty both in plain leaded glass and roundels throwing a pleasant network of simple geometric lines over the blankness of window-panes. Henry Shaw, in his Glazier's Book,8 gives a great variety of delightful leading patterns.