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Theseupdates are for Church Windows Desktop customers. If your church uses Church Windows Web, all updates are automatically installed for you. Does your church use the Desktop version, but may be interested in Web?

While I was researching my next newspaper article, I kept thinking about the film and the city of Pawhuska. And for full disclosure, I did work 15 days on the film as a background extra when they were shooting in Pawhuska. In talking with some of the crew members, they asked me on occasion for ideas and suggestions of must-see destinations in the state. And I was more than happy to give them a rather long list of suggestions.

And one of those ideas was right there in Pawhuska, I told the crew members, and it would be easy to visit on a day off. That destination was the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, also known as the Cathedral of the Osage.

A few years ago, I did a story on the Cathedral of the Osage for "Discover Oklahoma," and it is one that also has stayed with me. The church has been a fixture in Pawhuska since 1925. The Osages are the ones who built the church, and at that time, the church was probably 85% Osage. About that same time is when the Osages were considered the richest people per capita in the world.

While doing the story on the church and taking photos and shooting some video, I found myself on more than one occasion just standing and admiring the artistry in the Osage window. The figures are considered extremely life-like, and remember that this was a project that even a world war could not stop and Vatican rules did not hinder. These are considered to be some of the finest stained glass windows in America. It is my sincere hope you take time to visit this truly beautiful destination very soon.

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Though Church Windows Web was specifically designed to allow staff members the ability to access Church Windows remotely, it is possible to access Church Windows Desktop from home or a different location when using a third-party remote login service.

In this document, even though Church Windows Web was specifically designed to allow staff members the ability to access Church Windows remotely, it is possible to access Church Windows Desktop from home or a different location when using a third-party remote login service.

While upgrading to Church Windows Web is definitely an option, please note that it is not an immediate option. Setting up a cloud installation of Church Windows requires signing a contract with the company that hosts Church Windows Web and takes a few business days to set up the cloud installation. At that point, we can move your data from your local installation out to that cloud installation. If you are interested in starting that process, you can email sa...@churchwindows.com. Someone will get back with you as quickly as possible and will help you through the process.

Using these services is fairly simple, but may require some assistance from your church computer technician. With these being companies and services unrelated to Church Windows, we are not able to help with them or support issues. But when it comes to help in Church Windows specifically, we are always here for you!

It is possible to install Church Windows Desktop at home, then backup the church data and restore it at home. One warning about this involves the transfer of data if you decide to take data back to the church.

At that point, you can install the software. Have a backup of the church data ready at home by USB flash drive or stored somewhere on the home computer. Upon opening the recently-installed Church Windows Desktop for the first time, the system will offer the option to restore with a message similar to:

If you love looking at this amazing work and wonder how you could make your own stained glass different and unique, have a look at my Plating Magic course. It will give you a whole new set of possibilities and skills.

The windows were made by Barnard Flower, the Master Glazier to King Henry VII. They were designed to read like a book, with the plot craftily adjusted so that an uplifting image was placed above each altar.

There are lots of church stained glass windows in Swansea, Wales. A while ago I went on a tour to look at them.

Back then, cameras and slides were the thing, and I have lots from this trip, all lovingly labelled and notated.

Church stained glass windows do not look like this. These four enormous pillars of light are more like walls than the traditional windows we know and love.

Surrounding the altar in light, they make up 560 square metres of glass in total.

The two conflicting styles each have their own power and resonance. The uplifting experience in St Patroklus Cathedral in Soest left me buzzing, but it was the intimacy of the crypt at St Maria im Kapitol in Cologne that stayed with me. Figurative church stained glass windows have never been my thing, but these simple abstract church windows were quietly divine in this contemplative setting.

Wherever I travel I seek out old churches to admire the SG windows. The Victoria and Albert Museum has some wonderful old windows on display but my favourites are those that survived the wars in Europe and have been lovingly preserved in the old churches.

Hi Millie,

I really admire these modern German windows. Do you know the technique that was used to create the lines that end in the middle of a piece of glass? Are they painted extensions of lead lines?

Thanks,

Dave Tracy

Stained glass is coloured glass as a material or works created from it. Although traditionally made in flat panels and used as windows, the creations of modern stained glass artists also include three-dimensional structures and sculpture. Modern vernacular usage has often extended the term "stained glass" to include domestic lead light and objets d'art created from foil glasswork exemplified in the famous lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany.

As a material stained glass is glass that has been coloured by adding metallic salts during its manufacture, and usually then further decorating it in various ways. The coloured glass is crafted into stained glass windows in which small pieces of glass are arranged to form patterns or pictures, held together (traditionally) by strips of lead, called cames or calms, and supported by a rigid frame. Painted details and yellow stain are often used to enhance the design. The term stained glass is also applied to windows in enamelled glass in which the colours have been painted onto the glass and then fused to the glass in a kiln; very often this technique is only applied to parts of a window.

Stained glass, as an art and a craft, requires the artistic skill to conceive an appropriate and workable design, and the engineering skills to assemble the piece. A window must fit snugly into the space for which it is made, must resist wind and rain, and also, especially in the larger windows, must support its own weight. Many large windows have withstood the test of time and remained substantially intact since the Late Middle Ages. In Western Europe, together with illuminated manuscripts, they constitute the major form of medieval pictorial art to have survived. In this context, the purpose of a stained glass window is not to allow those within a building to see the world outside or even primarily to admit light but rather to control it. For this reason stained glass windows have been described as "illuminated wall decorations".

During the late medieval period, glass factories were set up where there was a ready supply of silica, the essential material for glass manufacture. Silica requires a very high temperature to melt, something not all glass factories were able to achieve. Such materials as potash, soda, and lead can be added to lower the melting temperature. Other substances, such as lime, are added to rebuild the weakened network and make the glass more stable. Glass is coloured by adding metallic oxide powders or finely divided metals while it is in a molten state.[1] Copper oxides produce green or bluish green, cobalt makes deep blue, and gold produces wine red and violet glass. Much of modern red glass is produced using copper, which is less expensive than gold and gives a brighter, more vermilion shade of red. Glass coloured while in the clay pot in the furnace is known as pot metal glass, as opposed to flashed glass.

Using a blow-pipe, a glass maker will gather a glob of molten glass that was taken from the pot heating in the furnace. The 'gather' is formed to the correct shape and a bubble of air blown into it. Using metal tools, molds of wood that have been soaking in water, and gravity, the gather is manipulated to form a long, cylindrical shape. As it cools, it is reheated so that the manipulation can continue. During the process, the bottom of the cylinder is removed. Once brought to the desired size it is left to cool. One side of the cylinder is opened, and the cylinder is then put into another oven to quickly heat and flatten it, and then placed in an annealer to cool at a controlled rate, making the material more stable. "Hand-blown" or "mouth-blown" cylinder (also called muff glass) and crown glass were the types used in the traditional fabrication of stained-glass windows.

Crown glass is hand-blown glass created by blowing a bubble of air into a gather of molten glass and then spinning it, either by hand or on a table that revolves rapidly like a potter's wheel. The centrifugal force causes the molten bubble to open up and flatten. It can then be cut into small sheets. Glass formed this way can be either coloured and used for stained-glass windows, or uncoloured as seen in small paned windows in 16th- and 17th-century houses. Concentric, curving waves are characteristic of the process. The centre of each piece of glass, known as the "bull's-eye", is subject to less acceleration during spinning, so it remains thicker than the rest of the sheet. It also has the pontil mark, a distinctive lump of glass left by the "pontil" rod, which holds the glass as it is spun out. This lumpy, refractive quality means the bulls-eyes are less transparent, but they have still been used for windows, both domestic and ecclesiastical. Crown glass is still made today, but not on a large scale.

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