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Another approach was ornament with threads of glass of a special color, worked into the main floor, and typically manipulated by combing and other effects. Gilded, painted, and enameled glass had been added to the repertoire, and shapes and motifs borrowed from other media, corresponding to pottery and metalwork. Some of the finest work was in mosaic lamps donated by a ruler or rich man. As ornament grew more elaborate, the quality of the essential glass decreased, and it “often has a brownish-yellow tinge and is never free from bubbles.”. Aleppo seems to have ceased to be a serious centre…