Legacy Glass Art Supply & Inspiration

Legacy Glass Art strives to bring you the best products for your stained glass projects. Unlike common window glass, which is perfectly smooth and flawless, art glass seeks visual character through aesthetic "imperfections". These characteristics mimic the mandmade sheet glass of centuries past. They come in the form of textural waves and striations, random bubbles and a variety of other natural effects. Art glass achieves its personality through these peculiarities and no two sheets are ever identical.

The following are some of the great suppliers we rely on. We make every effort to reproduce glass colors as accurately as possible, however, we have little control over the colors represented by computer displays. The images are only approximations and there is no substitute for the real thing. Come in and SEE for yourself!!

What we Carry

Spectrum Glass
Spectrum is a manufacturer of specialty sheet glass for use in architecture, fine arts, hobby-craft, lighting and other applications. We produce nearly 250 glass products including Waterglass®, Baroque™, Artíque®, Iridescent Glass, multi-color mixes and textured colors.

Spectrum Product Groups

Cathedral Glass
Transparent, single color sheet glass, available with either smooth or textured surfaces.

Mixed Opalescent Glass
One or more cathedral glasses combined with white opalescent glass to create a variegated, multi-colored sheet. Available with varying degrees of light transmission.

Opalized Glass
Solid color, opaque glasses. These non-variegated products are highly reflective in nature and thus especially popular for mosaic and mural application. With backlighting, natural or artificial, they reveal a captivating, luminescent glow.

Waterglass®
A natural surface texture created by stretching the hot glass sheet while it is still in a pliable state. The result is gentle, rolling waves that resemble the surface of a lake or stream. A Spectrum exclusive.

Baroque™
A "reamy" glass, produced by combining glasses of mis-matched compositions. The different glasses "oppose" each other when they are stirred together, creating artistic 3-D swirls. A Spectrum exclusive.

Artíque®
A scribed "antique" glass, alive with the surface striations characteristic of mouthblown sheet glass. Artíque unites brilliant surface characteristics, delicate light refraction and subtle but definite background distortion. A Spectrum exclusive.

Iridescent Glass
A thin layer of metallic crystal has been bonded to these glasses during sheet forming, creating a colorful, shimmering surface effect.


SilverCoats™
We’ve taken our unique art glass products and added a bright, reflective silver-coat to one side, turning specialty glasses into shimmering super-specialties perfect for projects that demand brilliance. SilverCoats reflect a rainbow of color and texture any time it’s called for. A Spectrum exclusive.


Kokomo Opalescent Glass

KOG is one of the oldest manufacturers of opalescent and cathedral stained glass in the world. We have the ability to manufacture over 22,000 different color/density/texture combinations, and have been in continuous operation since 1888. KOG provides single-color, cathedrals, streakies, opalumes and hundreds of opalescent combinations to fit virtually every project.

Founded in 1976 by John W. Triggs, one of the industry's leading color experts, continues the timeless tradition of instilling color and texture into every hand-crafted sheet produced at its Connellsville, Pennsylvania factory.

World-renowned for uncompromising quality, stained glass artists have turned to Youghiogheny time and again for its unique color artistry born of technology, to recreate the magnificence of nature's palate for infusion into their unique creations.


The Paul Wissmach Glass Company, Inc

A century ago, on October 13, 1904 the Ohio Valley Glass Company was
founded by Paul Wissmach. The company originally manufactured raised glass letters, wire glass and tubing. But Mr. Wissmach had a dream to create beautiful colored rolled sheet glass to inspire stained glass work, today his dream has been built into the manufacturer of the largest variety of colored rolled sheet glass in the world.

The year 1910 marked an important date in the company's history as it changed
its name to The Paul Wissmach Glass Company, Inc. Mr. Wissmach's dream had finally been realized.

Wissmach Glass has not been without its share of hardships. A fire in 1927 completely destroyed vital manufacturing and warehouse facilities. The fire turned out to be a blessing-in-disguise as the company quickly recovered with new and larger buildings.

The increased factory area led the company to expand its interest into the field of manufacturing raised white opal letters. The letters were widely used in electrical signs of which theater marquee sales made up the largest volume. The glass letter market eventually gave way to plastics. During the same period of the late 1920's and 1930's, Wissmach Glass continued to manufacture patterned wire glass and also introduced its line of Neo-Flash - the only rolled flashed glass in the country. Neo-Flash was designed and widely-used in the lighting field.

Both Neo-Flash and wire glass were dropped from the line in the early 1960's as company officials decided to concentrate on producing the finest colored rolled sheet glass. Today, over 13,000 square feet of glass is produced in Wissmach's manufacturing facility each day. On average, eight to ten different color
runs of glass are made daily.

Throughout the years, Wissmach Glass has built an inventory that includes over 3,000 colors, tints and patterns. While preserving the many traditional colors and mixes of the past, Wissmach constantly introduces new colors and types of glass to meet the demands of the artists of today and the artists of tomorrow