Technology of glass paints & using them to restore the monumental glass ceilings & apertures in Egypt

Prof. Dr. Mohamed Aly Hassan Zinhom, Assistant Lecturer Rasha Mohamed Aly and Designer Hesham Abdel Rahman, Glass Section, Faculty of Applied Art, Helwan University

In fact, the story of glass paints doesn’t go in a systematic way since its foundation up till now, that because the different circumstances, goals and sources of each country. Such industry isn’t a craft aiming just benefit, but it is an impulsive and natural innovation rose from man’s spirit and its artistic skill. So, glass is both art and industry mainly depends on its structure on the mixture of natural materials consisting of (Na13 Ca4. Mg B2. Al Si30. O76), in addition to some metallic oxidations which assisting in its coloring, re-melting, its sudden cooling and its grinding, as it can be used as a color in painting, artistic treatment on glass surfaces then it can make from it a film layer by precipitation on polymer components.

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