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Lawrence Payne: Posted on Sunday, May 13, 2012 9:44 PM
This is an article on how to set out the classic 2 strand guilloche pattern. The method set out allows you to work out a pattern correctly regardless of the size of tesserae you use. I am using a measurement of 11mm for each tesserae, it's up to you what size you use. It may seem complicated at first but this is the full set. After you've doen it a while you can get it down from 15 steps to 3. Click on the link here to go to the page. |
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Lawrence Payne: Posted on Sunday, May 13, 2012 9:18 AM
Here's another link to a website which has images of stone working tools, the set of hammers looking exactly the same as the hammers we use now. Unfortunately it's in Italian and the Google translation leaves something to be desired so I can't quite figure out whether they are from a Medievil workshop or from an ancient site. |
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Lawrence Payne: Posted on Sunday, May 13, 2012 8:38 AM
This quote is taken from an article in an Australian tiling magazine ( http://www.infotile.com.au/pdfFile/advicetopic/48201031834.pdf) and concerns a court case from a few years back. This quote below is the Britsh Standard comcerning how much area on the back of a mosaic glued to mesh should be kept free to allow the adhesive to bond with the tesserae. At the bottom of the page I have a suggestion on how to ensure your glue doesn't cover all the tiles.
"Code of practice for ceramic tiling and mosaics in specific conditions |
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Lawrence Payne: Posted on Saturday, May 12, 2012 9:12 AM
Patterns;
When you work out a pattern from a geometric mosaic I feel that there are 4 stages you need to go through.
1. Do your drawing in whatever way works. Work out the pattern from the outside, in or from the inside out it doesn't matter. Apply every conceivable line and shape to find out what was used, just use whatever method to understand the pattern. You work from the middle of a large sheet of blank paper starting with a dot in the centre. Don't set borders yet.See what size the mosaic fits to which is determined by the size of tesserae that you use. |
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Lawrence Payne: Posted on Friday, May 11, 2012 8:52 AM
This is another posting on Etsy for some material I have which is suitable for modern mosaic work. These are rods of slate, a shade of green/yellow. 200 - 300mm lengths and 10mm - 20mm width. 4mm - 6mm thick so they can be cut with tile nippers. £6.00 per 500gm + postage. Contact me if you'd like a single rod sample. |
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Lawrence Payne: Posted on Saturday, May 05, 2012 12:17 PM
Volume II, Roman Geometric patterns is now totally finished!
It's the 4th rewrite and my apologies to everyone that's been waiting for this.
I pick up the bound copies on Tuesday and they go in the mail then. For those of you who've ordered the manuals then there will be a PDF copy of Volume II in your inbox for you to look at until the hard copy arrives.
Volume II now consists of a 30page A4 s...ize manual explaining the principles and methods I use to work out a pattern and also a A5 size booklet with a step by step guide to 12 patterns.
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Lawrence Payne: Posted on Friday, April 13, 2012 3:17 PM
New article which takes one of the border patterns and shows you some basic workings out to determine length and width. Click here |
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Lawrence Payne: Posted on Friday, April 13, 2012 2:12 PM
The first of the Stone articles. This is a rough guide to classifying the types of stone we use for mosaics according to it's hardness/workability. |
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Lawrence Payne: Posted on Tuesday, April 10, 2012 8:59 PM
2 geometric mosaics from the Advanced course in April 2012. I don't expect the students to be able to finish the pieces on the course. They take the tesserae home to finish, the main thing is that they understand how the pattern is set. The other mosaics were a figural/portrait mosaics and an animal/bird one.  A copy (incomplete) of a mosaic from The house of Stone Carpets, Ravenna, Italy. Compare this pattern with the one below.  Copy (incomplete) from a 6th century AD mosaic found in Jordan. |
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Lawrence Payne: Posted on Tuesday, April 10, 2012 7:27 AM
Just finished the Advanced course so I'll be posting up some photos and notes from it later on today. It was a very interesting few days and marking out the geometric mosaics was fascinating, large patterns but both were seen to be variations on the same layout. |
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