mosaics

Offers more than three hundred tips, techniques, templates, and secrets for creating mosaics, including easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions, professional quick-fixes and solutions for common problems, advice on equipment and materials, tips on design, and handy templates.

Presents step-by-step instructions for sixteen mosaic projects, with advice on tools, materials, and techniques, and includes thirty trace-off patterns, designs for home and garden, and photographs of the work of mosaic artists.

Describes the stones and tools used in making a mosaic and instructs the beginner in stone splitting and planning, setting, displaying, and restoring mosaics.

Presents an illustrated discussion of mosaics, with case studies of historical and cultural events and figures, and includes ideas for creating mosaic pen holders, photo frames, and other projects.

Step-by-step instructions show how to perform the four basic techniques used to create mosaics; includes twelve projects, information on materials, and hints on creating different projects.

Demonstrates the techniques of making mosaic pictures using cut paper shapes and glue.