Tag: mosaic pattern
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Online Mosaic Design Tool
To promote mosaic as a fine art, we encourage people to make their own mosaic designs and to choose non-gridded over gridded designs. Nevertheless, there are many situations that call for naturalistic images, and these are most easily made using a gridded design where each tile is treated as a tiny pixel.
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Boo! Mosaic Patterns for Halloween
Ivana created some patterns for Halloween mosaic designs that will be part of an ongoing series with new designs for each holiday. These patterns are for use with whole tiles in a grid with no grout gap and are designed for Morjo™ 10mm Vitreous Glass Mosaic Tile on a 12×12-inch mosaic backer. You can order…
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Make Quick Mosaic Patterns from Any Photo
Recently a friend of mine asked for a mosaic pattern for a kingfisher and the materials to make it. He made this request at the eleventh hour when he discovered that it would be raining the entire weekend of his family’s beach trip. I literally had to get the pattern and the tile shipped the…
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Mosaic Patterns as Rough Maps
Most details in a mosaic are improvised and are not specified in the pattern. If so, then what is the purpose of a mosaic pattern? Like a rough sketch on a canvas to be painted, the purpose of a mosaic pattern is primarily to specify key lines and proportions, to be a rough map of…