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2 strand guilloche border pattern

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.

Wave Pattern - Setting Out

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

Setting out the Circles mosaic

I set this page up then for some reason didn't upload the image gallery!
Here it is in place now, Circles Mosaic, setting out