Corning Museum of Glass

The generic name for decorative windows made of pieces of colored glass fitted into cames and set in iron frames. Strictly speaking, the term is inaccurate because, in addition to glass colored by staining, glaziers used, and continue to use, glass colored throughout by metallic oxide, glass colored by flashing, and glass decorated with enamel.

Glass made in the rural glasshouses of central and northern Europe in the late Middle Ages and the early modern period. Most forest glass was fluxed with potash derived from the wood with which the furnaces were fueled. It is green because of iron impurities in the sand from which it was made. The German term for forest glass is Waldglas.

The process of cutting into the surface of an annealed glass object either by holding it against a rotating copper wheel fed with an abrasive or by scratching it, usually with a diamond.