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Saturday Opening
The Liverpool and East Kilbride branches will not be open on Saturdays, London remains the same.
Sorry for any inconvenience caused.
CUSTOMER NOTICE
Liverpool Stained Glass department has now moved to a new purpose built factory at:
32 Wellington Park
Dunes Way
Liverpool
L5 9RJ
We welcome you all there. Click on the contact tab for directions
Click on the link below to see the winners gallery of our second annual ceremony...
New course dates and price reductions now available!
NEW COURSE 
For further information or to reserve a place on a course please contact Lisa Beaver on:
Contact Details:
Processing Tel. 0151-207-1474
Processing Fax. 0151-207-2110
Email angelaw@pearsonsglass.co.uk
Stained Glass Tel (Liv) 0151-207-1474
Stained Glass Fax (Liv) 0151-207-4039
Email(Liv) info@pearsonsglass.co.uk
Stained Glass Tel (Lon) 0208-578-5788
Stained Glass Fax (Lon) 0208-578-5799
Email(Lon) suep@pearsonsglass.co.uk
Stained Glass Tel (EK) 01355-230175
Stained Glass Fax (EK) 01355-230175
Email(EK) eastkilbride@pearsonsglass.co.uk
Pearsons Glass is the largest distributors of coloured glass and accessories in the UK. We stock a huge range of Lamberts, Armstrong, Imera, Artista, Kokomo, Spectrum, Uroboros, Wissmach, Tatra, St-Just, Victorian Patterned, Restoration, Cathedral, Sahara, Reamy Slab, Corella, English Muffle, Flemish, Gluechip, Muranese and Dichroic glasses. We have always promoted the principle that stained glass is an art as well as a business. This website provides a resource for the stained glass artist and hobbyist.
The Stained Glass department sprang to life in the early 80's, it began with just a few sheets of coloured glass laid into a corner of the factory and was there as a service to the already established customer base. There is the saying that from small acorns grows big oak trees and certainly in this case it is true. Pearsons Glass’ development of the coloured glass division over the intervening years has included the take over of James Hetley & Co and the Bohle “Art Glass” division.
Over the years Pearsons Glass has developed a network of contacts throughout the world along with Provetro partner companies in Europe. Pearsons Glass can offer from stock, a comprehensive range of glasses, from machine made to hand blown antique, tools, materials, lead came and ancillary products. Contacts gained over the years enable Pearsons to supply non-stock products on a short lead-time.
The recent developments in hot glass have seen Pearsons Glass taking a leading role in developing this market. They offer glasses from Schott, Spectrum and Bullseye, along with kilns developed to our own specification and manufactured in the UK. We have always taken a view that in order to develop the coloured glass markets, a proactive programme offering new and exciting products, has been key in developing the use of glass. This view continues to the present day.
Price List
The online price list provides details of all our glass (over 1000 different types and colours) as well as the tools and accessories you need to produce successful projects in stained glass. You can order from Pearsons Glass whether you visit the shop in Liverpool, London or East Kilbride or the on-line facility.
Click here to contact us and order a price list.
Beginners Tutorials
Read our beginners guide to lead and copper foil techniques. Split into five pages, the guide will tell you all you need to know to get started in either of these two techniques:
Get Started What you will need - techniques compared
Creating a Design Making a cutline - cutting glass
Leading A Panel Preparing lead - leading and cementing
Using Copper Foil - Foiling and soldering
Structural Reinforcement Saddle ba - Rebar, Steels & Zinc Section
Pearsons Prize
The categories for the awards will range from glass art to restoration, best use of glass in shop fitting to architecture. From these categories an overall winner will be chosen by the judges who feel has made the best and most imaginative use of glass. The exact parameters will be announced in January as Pearsons are consulting the glass industry and the trade press, to make sure that everyone has an input, making it a true industry award. The date for the award has not been set as yet, but early indications are that it will be held in November this year.
GLASS TYPES- Coloured glass is available in a large variety of colours and textures.
Our range consists of over 1000 glasses of various kinds from ten different manufacturers. In order to help you find the glass you require we discuss the various types below with links to the particular glasses in our product catalogue.
Cathedral Plain or Streaky
Obscure, machine made glass, smooth on one side and usually textured on the other, available in a selection of colours. Streaky cathedral consists of more than one colour streaked in the glass.
Drawn Antique
A machine made glass with striations on the surface giving the appearance of mouthblown glass but with less "movement". Available in an attractive colour range.
Flashed
A mouthblown glass consisting of two or more layers. The base glass, which may be coloured or clear, has a thin layer of a different colour spread across the sheets. The surface colour may then be etched or sandblasted away to reveal a pattern in the base colour underneath. The density of colour on each sheet may vary from one end of the glass to the other.
Gluechip
To obtain this effect glue is baked onto the surface of clear glass. When it is peeled of it leaves a fern-like pattern. Useful as a background glass.
Irridescent
Light reflected from the surface of the glass reveals the irridescence while light passing through shows the colour in the glass itself. Useful in creating exciting projects as the irridescence sparkles to produce a most pleasing effect.
Mouthblown
Produced by a glassblower blowing a long cylinder of molten glass called a muff. When this has cooled it is cut along its length and then reheated so that the cylinder can be opened out into a flat sheet. The glass is generally known as hand made "Antique" and is the best for making quality stained glass windows. Its apparent "imperfections" - bubbles and reams - cause movement when looking through the glass. Each piece is unique and the thickness of glass will vary considerably from sheet to sheet as well as within each sheet. The density of colour will also therefore vary.
Opalescent
Opaque glass with two or more colours streaked in the body of the sheet. Attractive either in face light or with light passing through, it is very versatile, as the finished project will be pleasing whether lit or unlit. For this reason opalescence are mostly used in Tiffany lamps or jewelry boxes, although in the USA it is commonly used in full sized stained glass windows.
Reamy
Reams are 'imperfections' such as lines and bumps in the glass that used to indicate that the glass had been mouthblown. However a number of manufacturers now produce attractive machine made reamy glass, every sheet being different. The Spectrum trade name for their machine made reamy is Baroque.
Sahara
Sahara is a rolled glass similar to the Pilkingtons clear cathedral that is no longer made. It is available in 18 colours and is very useful for restoration or new work.
Waterglass
A surface texture of water-like appearance and available in a good range of colours. This glass is unique to Spectrum.
Wispy
A mixture of opalescent and cathedral, resulting in a glass which is more translucent than opalescent. This is another glass unique to Spectrum
Streaky
Translucent or opalescent glass with streaks of one or more colours unevenly distributed throughout. Produced in mouthblown and machine rolled glass.
Muffled Sheet
An old pattern now remade as a machine rolled cathedral. Translucent, semi-obscure glass with an irregular pattern on one surface.