Queen Anne Glass Border Reinterpreted
6 April 2021 QUEEN ANNE GLASS BORDER REINTERPRETED Sometime before we bought our house in the Highlands in 1965, a small side porch was converted into a mudroom kitchen entry and a first floor bathroom. The exterior door and the windows to the two rooms had horizontally divided glass, out of character with the rest of the house. This gave me an opportunity to redo the windows with a glass pattern that was modeled on the Queen Anne style windows in the adjoining section of the house without being a direct copy of the style. The traditional Queen Anne window sash has a border of square or rectangular clear or stained-glass panels separated by wood mullions. In my reinterpretation, I replaced the wood mullions with a pattern of stained-glass assembled with soldered lead came (as in a church window). The panels in my window are of uncolored Florentine glass, the heavily embossed glass that was traditional for bathroom windows in earlier times. For privacy, I used