The history of the oak framed mirror | Home Furniture Land

A typical mirror is a thin sheet of glass that has a coating of aluminium or silver on its back and produces an image through reflection.
Mirrors that where used in the middles ages throughout Europe and Greco-Roman antiquity where typically made from either bronze, tin or silver slightly convex in shape and very highly polished to reflect the light.
It was in Venice in the 16th century that the method of applying a thin sheet of metal an amalgam of tin and mercury to the back a flat glass came into widespread production.

It was Justus von Liebig in 1835 that discovered the chemical process of coating the surface of glass with metallic silver. It was this advance that led to the techniques currently used in modern mirror making.
Current day methods involve sputtering a thin layer of molten aluminium or silver onto a piece of glass in a vacuum to make mirrors.

Framed mirrors these days come in all shapes sizes and surrounds. Here at Home Furniture Land we specialise in solid oak furniture and to complement our ranges we have designed some solid oak framed mirrors to add the finishing touches to our Rothbury, Delamere, and Glenmore ranges. Our solid oak framed mirrors are available in light and dark oak.

So if your buying framed mirrors don’t spend more than you have to in expensive High St stores you can get beautiful solid oak framed mirrors direct from us at www.homefurnitureland.co.uk