Abstract Thursday: Patterns

This week Ingeborg has suggested "Patterns" as the optional theme for Abstract Thursday.

My Editor kindly suggested that I once more make use of some of the stained glass windows which we're lucky to have. You may recall that I used an original (exterior) window as the basis for my "Dots" AT entry 3 weeks ago - that stained glass must be over 100 years old.. This week I've used the patterns on a much newer internal partition window.

"Why such a window?" you may ask. Well our hallway is rather long and narrow, and must initially have been quite dark and forbidding. A previous owner had installed an enormous single-plate glass window between the hall and the dining room to provide more light in the hall (the dining room has a big bay window looking onto the garden). However that looked completely out of keeping with the rest of the house, so many years ago our friendly local carpenter made a new window with multiple panes and reproduction matching intermediate frames and architraves. Along the top is a row of 4 transom-type panes: we were fortunate to find a local company to make up new stained glass for these. They came up with a traditional type of design which coordinated well with the rest of the house.

It was tricky to get a good photo of these owing to multiple shadows in the background. One of the end panes was easier however, so I photographed it, copied and flipped it, and pasted it next to the original to produce this double-pane effect.