The Rosace Review

Twelve lights, one eye — turn the wheel to read

The rose window — choose a light

Amber Light I of XII Glazier: Ilse Ferrand, 1487

The Eye

“Everything the window says, it says by being stood behind.”

The medallion at the centre is not a picture but an aperture. Every one of the twelve lights borrows its argument from this small disc of uncoloured glass — the only pane in the whole wheel that shows you the weather instead of a story. Select any petal to read its gloss.

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The Ambulatory — dispatches from the glass house

Canon of Pigments

Metal oxides fired at the Guild kiln, Michaelmas term.
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