The Luck of Edenhall: history & myths
This famous glass, known as the 'Luck of Edenhall' for at least 230 years, is a beaker with flaring rim decorated i…
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Caring for your glass
This section contains Information and advice on how to look after glass. It highlights common problems, tells you w…
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Cracking Crizzling - Eight Years of Collaborative Research
For seven years, the Conservation Department of the V& A has collaborated with the Department of Materials at I…
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Teachers' resource: Glass
An online resource for primary and secondary school teachers showing how the V&A glass galleries can be used to sup…
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Chinese glass reading list
Recommended reading about Chinese Glass
Making a stained glass panel
The panel being made in this video is a replica of a piece of stained glass from around 1375. The original panel once formed part of the scene of Christ's Entry into Jerusalem, a single element of a large window dedicated to the Passion of Christ.
Islamic ceramics & glass reading list
Recommended reading on Islamic ceramics and glass
German and Swiss stained glass 1470–1510
Lukas Zeiner was a glass painter and glazier. He is recorded in the town records of Zurich between 1479 and 1512. Zeiner was a leading glass artist in the field of heraldic painting. His style featured a coat of arms with supporters within an elaborate canopy ...
Stained glass from Mariawald Abbey
Mariawald Abbey in Germany was built between 1480 and 1539. Though cloisters are usually open at the sides, the cloister at Mariawald Abbey had glass windows made of clear and coloured glass with painted and stained scenes from the Old and New Testaments of the Bible.
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Textured Glass Goblet
Beautiful hand blown glass collection which reflects the Museum's collections of 14th-17th century glass
Buy nowEvent - Poetic Licence - writing in the Galleries: Workshop 2
Fri 17 February 2012 20:00
SPECIAL EVENT: Explore the Luck of Edenhall, a medieval drinking glass decorated in gold and coloured enamels and be inspired by its embellishments to craft your own poem with poet Shazea Quraishi.
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