Etched Glass Cherry Blossom with Crow – London
Hi Gill, below is your proof to show you how the design could look in your glass sizes. We’ve used the Cherry Blossom design from [...]
Etched Glass London
Founded in 1994, the Leadbitter Glass Studio has been supplying Etched Glass panels to homes and businesses across London ever since, delivering to every other part of the UK too. Islington’s Canonbury Square is considered a masterclass in Georgian town planning, its long terraces built with delicate fanlights above almost every front door — precisely the kind of period detail where etched glass has always looked its best.
Etched glass, sometimes called sandblasted glass, is made by obscuring sections of clear glass to form a decorative pattern, while leaving the rest untouched. Every panel we make is bespoke, built to your own glass sizes rather than picked from stock — we design thousands of one-off pieces a year. Requests for family crests, favourite trees, and traditional Victorian motifs are all common, and the vast majority of panels qualify for free delivery across London.
As one of the oldest decorative glass techniques still in use, etched glass has the advantage of letting through more natural light than coloured styles, since there’s no lead work or tint to block it. Our glass has appeared in a Prime Minister’s home and on Hollywood film sets, but the overwhelming majority of our work is still for homeowners across London and beyond. We also produce other styles of Decorative Glass for London clients, including Stained Glass, Bevelled Glass, and Fused Glass.
See your glass before we create it!
Our Free Client Pages Design Service
Every order comes with free access to our Client Pages design service. A few days after ordering, we’ll send a computer-generated proof built to your exact glass sizes, showing precisely how the finished design will look. Want the border shifted, or your house number in a different font? Just ask — we’ll keep adjusting the drawing until it’s exactly right, and production only starts once you’ve given the go-ahead.
Perfect For House Names And Numbers
Etched glass suits house names and numbers particularly well, and it’s one of our most common requests for the fanlight above a front door. If your London home has one, we can create a panel showing your house number or name. For the sharpest result, we generally etch the surrounding background and leave the lettering itself clear, so it stands out at a glance.
How Our Etched Glass Is Made
We start with a sheet of clear toughened safety glass and apply a mask cut precisely to your chosen design. Sandblasting equipment then wears away every exposed section at high pressure, leaving a permanently frosted texture wherever the glass isn’t protected.
Peeling the mask away afterwards reveals the finished pattern in full. Because that frosted texture sits inside the glass itself rather than on top of it, it can never fade, peel, or wear thin — unlike a vinyl “etch-effect” film, which typically starts to yellow and lift within a few years.
If you’ve an old or damaged etched panel at home, our glass artists can often reproduce the pattern closely, even where the original itself is beyond repair, as long as we have a photograph or surviving fragment to work from.
Ready to have Etched Glass, or any other decorative glass, made for your London home or business? Get in touch today for an accurate quote and turnaround time.
Browse Our Etched Glass Galleries
Our website holds one of the largest collections of decorative glass patterns anywhere. Browse hundreds of Etched Glass designs in our main gallery, arranged by theme and by door style, to find the right pattern — or simply for inspiration towards your own. Visit the Main Gallery to see what’s possible.
Notable Etched Glass Commissions from the London area…
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Pattern 10 Door Etched Bevelled Glass – London
Hi Sid, below are the designs for your Pattern 10 door glass panels. Each design has been redrawn to suit your specific glass sizes of [...]
Etched Glass Leaves Gable Ends – London
Hi Chetan and Dean, I have attached the 2 drawings of your chosen Hallhill Leaves design as viewed from the inside. The grey areas will [...]
Victorian Etched Glass Vestibule – Harrow
Hi Adil, below is your chosen 1601 etched glass vestibule drawing shown in your specific glass sizes. The dashed line is the visible area so [...]
Victorian Etched Glass Reproduction – Notting Hill
Hello Anthony, below is your drawing to show you how your new reproduction etched glass will look. This new glass will be toughened safety glass [...]
Etched Glass Ammonite Fanlight – London
A client in 2023 placed an order for an Ammonite fanlight panel to go above her front door. We produced a proof to show her [...]
Etched Glass Feature Window – Yorkshire
In 2024 we created an etched glass feature window for a client’s home in Richmond near Darlington. The client found the design in our client [...]
Victorian Etched Glass Doors – London W1
Hi Lauren, below are your drawings for your Victorian Etched Glass door panels. The background shown as grey is the etched glass area and the [...]
Etched Glass Butterflies Window – London SW18
Hi Jane, below is your scale drawing of the butterfly window design requested. The dashed line around the outside indicates where your beading will sit. [...]
Traditional Etched Glass 5 Panel Door – London
Hi Mark, below is a proof to show you how the traditional etched design you’ve chosen will look in your glass sizes based on your [...]
Victorian Etched Glass Circle – London TW4
Hi Maya, below is your Victorian Etched Glass drawing showing you Centre C from our Edinburgh Range of Etched Glass in your glass sizes of [...]
Etched Glass Horses Head – Kent
Hi Sandra, we received your drawing and horse head sticker and created the proof below based on that design. This proof shows how the design [...]
Etched Glass Circles Door – London
Hi Margaret, below is the drawing of your glass design. The white sections will be clear glass and the grey sections will be etched glass. [...]
Victorian Etched Glass Reproduction – London
Hi Boyd, below is your drawing to show how our reproduction of your Victorian Etched Glass panels will look. We’ve tried to recreate every detail [...]
Circus Theme Etched Glass House Number – London N16
Hello Stephen, below is your drawing to show you how the glass panel will look in your clients glass sizes. The grey sections will be [...]
Coysh – Etched Glass Door – London
Hello Charles, below is your drawing to show you how your chosen design looks in your sizes. The dashed line is the visible area and [...]
Etched Glass Door Entryway – New Malden
Hi Sachith, below is your drawing showing how the etched glass design 1221 looks in your glass sizes. The grey sections will be etched glass [...]
Traditional Etched Glass Vestibule – London
In 2018, a customer asked us to produce glass in a design that stylistically matched other houses on their street. The panel above the door [...]
Etched Glass Barnes Bridge – London
Hi David, below is your drawing of the Barnes Bridge taken from the image you supplied. The grey areas will be the etched glass areas [...]
Victorian Etched Glass Sash Window London
Hello Vera, here is your drawing to show you how the proposed Victorian Etched Glass sash window design looks in your glass sizes. The grey [...]
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We supply Etched Glass to London and these surrounding areas…
Westminster – Greenwich – Wembley – Ealing – Brentford – Richmond – Croydon – Bromley – Twickenham – Enfield – Kingston Upon Thames – Hounslow – Dagenham – Loughton – Orpington – Waltham Abbey – Romford – Watford – Uxbridge – Dartford – Leatherhead – Hatfield – Hoddesdon – St Albans – Hertford – Slough – Harlow – Windsor – Welwyn Garden City – Sevenoaks – Ware – Gravesend – Hemel Hempstead – Woking – Maidenhead – Basildon – Guildford – Stevenage – Bracknell – Crawley