Victorian Etched Glass Landing Window – Edinburgh
Hi Wendy, below is your chosen Edinburgh Range design in your specific glass sizes. The base glass will be Stippolyte as requested so there will [...]
Edinburgh Etched Glass
Founded in 1994, the Leadbitter Glass Studio has been supplying Etched Glass panels to homes and businesses across Edinburgh ever since, delivering to every other part of the UK too. The Georgian terraces of the New Town, built from 1767 to a plan by architect James Craig, 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 Edinburgh.
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 Edinburgh and beyond. We also produce other styles of Decorative Glass for Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh area…
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Etched Glass Birds Door – Edinburgh
Hello David and Linda, below is our drawing based on the elements from your wallpaper design. This glass is viewed from inside the house. The [...]
Victorian Etched Glass Door – Edinburgh
In 2018, shortly after the launch of our new Edinburgh Etched Glass range, we received our first order from this new Victorian Etched Glass range. [...]
Etched Glass Autumn Tree Doors – Edinburgh
In 2018, we took an order for our popular Autumn Tree design from our Shadows of Nature range. The client had two identical pattern 10 [...]
Etched Glass Wave Doors – Edinburgh
Hello, below are your drawings to show you how the glass will look in your glass sizes. The areas shown in grey will be etched [...]
Victorian Etched Glass Door – Edinburgh
Hello Chris, below is your chosen 637 design from our Edinburgh range of Victorian Etched Glass designs. The dashed line shows the visible area. The [...]
Etched Glass Family Crest – Edinburgh
Hello Karen, here is your design using your glass sizes. The areas shown in white will be clear glass and the areas shown in grey [...]
Etched Glass Family Crest – Edinburgh
Hello Alison, these two etched glass family crest images are viewed from the outside of the house. The areas of the designs shown in grey [...]
Etched Glass Heron – Edinburgh
In 2012 we created this large sandblasted glass / Etched glass heron for clients in Edinburgh. The glass was created using 4mm toughened glass and [...]
Sandblasted Fused Side Panel Fanlights – Edinburgh
Hello Roslyn, here are your sandblasted fused designs in your supplied glass sizes. All of the tiles have now been replaced to be 40mm and [...]
We supply Etched Glass to Edinburgh and these surrounding areas…
Kirkcaldy – Livingston – Cumbernauld – Perth – Coatbridge – Hamilton – East Kilbride – Paisley – Kilmarnock – Dumfries – Ayr – Carlisle – Newcastle – Gateshead – Aberdeen – Whitehaven – Sunderland – Inverness – Hartlepool – Darlington – Middlesbrough – Lancaster – Thirsk – Ripon – Belfast – Antrim – Coleraine – Blackpool – Harrogate – Preston – Burnley – Blackburn – Accrington – Wetherby – Southport – Scarborough – Bradford – York – Leeds – Halifax