Mosaic Help . . . . .?
May 22, 2010
It seems like all the introductionary books I have on mosaic craft emphasize breaking your own pieces to your specifications and creating something. Well the problem is irregular pieces aren’t often sold therefore (or easy to break yourself when you have a baby crawling around) I have many, many, many squares tiles and yet I see no ‘patterns’ or examples of how to use only square mosaic tiles in a pattern.
Can anyone help point me in the right direction?
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May 22nd, 2010 at 12:18 pm
Check out some of these patterns/etc. for square tiles (tesserae) only or ones that could be done with square tiles only … clicking on them may take you to lessons and/or other patterns too:
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=mosaic+square+tiles+tesserae
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/160/330838063_247c9ac557.jpg?v=0
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1394/824528356_1da5cf424d.jpg?v=0
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=mosaic+mesh+tile
Unless your tiles are fairly small though, you won’t be able to do a lot of things with only squares besides square geometrics unless you have a large area for the mosaic.
HOWEVER, since needlepoint, cross-stitch, plastic canvas work, and even "Post It art," all use basically equal-shaped and equal-size units for their patterns, the patterns used for them could also be done with tiles instead of x’s or other units of yarn/thread, I guess:
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=free+patterns+needlepoint
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=free+patterns+plastic+canvas
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=free+patterns+cross+stitch
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=post+it+art
HTH,
Diane B.