oldglass, originally uploaded by bobsee.
The glass in this window is very, very old. These days, a pane of glass like this would be tossed into the reject bin quick as a flash. And what would we have lost?
Look at the textures, the shapes, the whorls and lines almost like a fingerprint, and that’s what this is – a unique, one-off, handcrafted work.
“But you can’t see through it very clearly!”
That’s true. But does that bother you? Is all glass for seeing through? This pane of glass lets in the light and it sits in its frame with its marks, its folds, its what you might prefer to call flaws, beautifully displayed.
I stood and gazed at this glass for ages. Can’t say many modern panes of glass have caught me that way!
There is a beauty in uniqueness, and that beauty is never found in homogenised, mass-produced, “perfection”.
Japanese culture has a word for this – wabi-sabi – it’s funny how there’s no direct translation into English.
Heroes Not Zombies 
I love antique glass! That is a neat window, thank you for snapping a picture to share! *smile*
As a child I found an old glass bottle in a disused shed that had a lovely rainbow patina on it. (From age?) It was made differently than bottles were in the 70s, and I got the impression that it was maybe made at some time during my parents’ childhood in the 30s and 40s, they seemed to think it was quite old. That bottle sat in my parent’s home as an ornament for years. I’m not sure whatever became of it though.