Victorian Etched Glass Vestibule – Aberdeen
Hello Stephen, below is our drawing of your vestibule glass shown using elements from the 1566 design. The grey sections will be the etched sections [...]
Aberdeen Etched Glass
Founded in 1994, the Leadbitter Glass Studio has been supplying Etched Glass panels to homes and businesses across Aberdeen ever since, delivering to every other part of the UK too. The Victorian granite tenements of Rosemount, made more accessible by the 1886 Rosemount Viaduct, are exactly the kind of period housing 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 Aberdeen.
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 Aberdeen and beyond. We also produce other styles of Decorative Glass for Aberdeen 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 Aberdeen 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 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 Aberdeen 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 Aberdeen area…
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Victorian Etched Glass Arch – Aberdeen
Hello, below is the drawing of the arched Victorian Etched Glass panel based on the 424 design. We have created the arch as a perfect [...]
Etched glass Waves – Aberdeen
Hi Stefan, here is the drawing of your two side panels. The background would be etched glass with the white sections being clear glass. We [...]
Etched Glass Vestibule – Aberdeen
Hell Karen and Ian, here is your chosen design in your specific glass sizes. The grey sections will be etched glass and the detail in [...]
Victorian Style Etched Glass Door Set – Aberdeen
Hello Mike, here is your Victorian Etched Glass Door design using a sandblasted (etched) background with the lines of the detail (shown in white) being [...]
Etched Glass Door & Side Panel – Aberdeen
Hello Neil, the background of the etched glass door & side panel will be sandblasted with the detail in clear glass. The border on this drawing [...]
Internal Door Leaded Glass – Aberdeen
Hello Donna & Chris, here are the layouts of your 24 Overlay Stained Glass panels. Please take a look at the designs and let the [...]
Sandblasted Glass Heron Feature Window – Aberdeen
Hello Mr Bremner, here we have your chosen sandblasted glass Heron design from this page and we have drawn it in the two different options [...]
Sandblasted Glass Mackintosh Door – Aberdeen
Hello, here is your chosen sandblasted glass Mackintosh door design – Sandblasted. Your door glass sizes of 550mm x 1427mm seem like they may not [...]
Etched Glass Door Borders – Aberdeen
Hello Katharine, Here are your 2 etched glass door borders to scale and the gold line shows where the beading will start so everything inside of [...]
Etched Glass Galleon – Aberdeen
We receive a lot of orders from Scotland and we created this door recently for a client in Aberdeen. Innes was just coming to the [...]
Etched & Fused Glass Doors – Aberdeen
Hello Hazel, these two designs are exactly to scale as your supplied dimensions. Below the 2 door glass images I have added some close up [...]
We supply Etched Glass to Aberdeen and these surrounding areas…
Perth – Kirkcaldy – Inverness – Livingston – Cumbernauld – Coatbridge – Hamilton – East Kilbride – Paisley – Kilmarnock – Newcastle – Ayr – Gateshead – Dumfries – Sunderland – Carlisle – Hartlepool – Middlesbrough – Darlington – Whitehaven – Thirsk – Scarborough – Ripon – Lancaster – Harrogate – York – Wetherby – Coleraine – Belfast – Antrim – Burnley – Bradford – Leeds – Blackpool – Accrington – Blackburn – Preston – Selby – Halifax – Dewsbury