Responding to our client's wishes to add drama to her laundry room and keep to her home's Chinese decor, we agreed upon a Red-crowned crane as the theme. Also known as a Japanese or Manchurian crane, it is a good omen and messenger of the gods in East Asia. To evoke the crane's feathers we used … machine-made textured glass and cobalt blue mouth-blown crackle glass. The background glass is a light tint mouth-blown glass that lets in plenty of light and reveals the client's lovely yard.

Jay installed the stained glass window inside an existing pane of glass, allowing a little air space to add to the insulating R-value. The stained glass panel itself is "cemented," making it rigid, water-proof, and air-tight. Jay's semi-permanent installation includes finish trim (wood in this case) which can be removed should the owner every want to move the stained glass.

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