Throughout the pages of the site you will see referances to Stained glass and Leaded lights. For the most part these terms have become almost interchangable . Yet they do have very definite meanings . Leaded lights are basically either clear or coloured glass cut to a pattern and held togather by lead strips to form a patterned door or window panel. Stained glass or glass staining on the other hand is the practice of painting silver stain ( silver nitrate ) onto usually clear glass sections and firing them in a kiln to produce fixed shades of yellow . Often seen in painted church windows to denote gold, bright light or yellow hair . Other painting techniques are used in these windows but staining only refers to these yellow / amber painted sections.