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Lawrence: Posted on Monday, February 13, 2012 7:49 AM
 After an extensive rewrite the Roman Mosaic Workshop Manual is now available. It's 85 pages and I cover as much as I can possibly put in to begin work on an accurate copy of a Roman mosaic. Also included in the price is the first part of Volume II, Geometric mosaics. This gives you the correct start in how to copy a Roman geometric or border mosaic. There has been some very good work done in the past on this but this manual is not just how to work them out on paper but also how turn these patterns into reality. |
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Lawrence: Posted on Monday, February 13, 2012 5:47 AM
There is another page in the 'Articles' section entitled Stone. Nothing in there yet but I will post articles on aspects of stone use both now and in the ancient world. |
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Lawrence: Posted on Sunday, February 12, 2012 3:35 PM
I've just put up a new article on getting the right technical information. There's a whole myriad of different adhesives, grouts, baseboard etc out there and knowing the right ones to get is more about asking yourself the right questions before going into the store than about the questions you ask the people there. |
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Lawrence: Posted on Sunday, February 12, 2012 1:28 PM
New page on the website, these are small (20cm x 20cm) mosaics made especially for museum handlimg collections. Taken from Romano British mosaics I will be adding more as they are done. |
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Lawrence: Posted on Saturday, January 28, 2012 7:17 PM
I've started a database on how to set out Roman mosaic patterns. This will include geometric and decorative ones formatted in the same way as the Wave pattern and the double strand guilloche on here. It will be done over 3 years and I hope to cover the most commmonly seen. When I make it available there will be a nominal payment for full access online and this will be available in about 3 months time. There have been a number of very good studies of how the the patterns were worked out in Roman mosaic floors but what sometimes looks good on paper can be a real headache to translate into a physical mosaic. |
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Lawrence: Posted on Saturday, January 28, 2012 6:51 PM
Wave Pattern - Setting out, new article in 'The Work'  This is another article on stting out one of the more common border patterns, the Wave pattern. Seen from early Greek times and very common in Roman mosaics it can be a difficult one to work. The full photo set is here |
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Lawrence: Posted on Saturday, January 14, 2012 8:44 AM
I've put up the available dates for workshops in 2012, up to the end of December. Apart from the Advanced Course I run all the other courses are run as people request them. There are no minimum numbers for my workshops. |
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Lawrence: Posted on Tuesday, January 10, 2012 7:55 PM
Article on using ordinary tile nippers to cut stone tesserae. This has appeared before but I have added a small bit on cutting shapes. |
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Lawrence: Posted on Sunday, January 08, 2012 8:54 PM
Here's another set, this is an image of the city of Bethlehem from the Madaba Map. The sticking point with this one was fittting in the text of the title. You need to decide whether you fit the letters onto separate coasters or spread them over the joins. As you can see on this set there are 3 letters in one coaster yet 2 on each side. The other option is to spread 2 letters over the joins. This may proportion the text better but you have the extra difficulty of setting the curves of the letters over the joins. |
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Lawrence: Posted on Thursday, January 05, 2012 5:27 PM
Another set of coasters added just now here It's always worth looking at different things like this to set mosaics onto. I've found it usefull to look over original pieces and then scaling them down in my head to fit them to the base size. In sizing up a mosaic for a floor you want to develop the eye to 'see' the mosaic in place. It's after this that you get your pencil and paper out and begin to take measurements and start calculating. And a good way to begin this is to be able to see a mosaic fitting onto a 10cm x 10cm coaster. |
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