Basic Mosaics

Mosaics made with ceramic tile, stained glass, or any number of found objects is a stylish and popular way to add a decorative flair to your home. This detailed guide for beginners presents hundreds of step-by-step photos that show exactly how to make your own mosaics.

Well-chosen beginning projects develop your quilting skills without requiring a long time to complete. Expert advice on choosing fabric, batting, backing, thread, and quilt designs. Complete instructions and photos for creating a pot holder, tote bag, pillow cover, and table runner.

Make mosaic frames, decorative panels, tabletops, shelves, switch plates, pavers, bird houses, and more. A creative way to remake and reuse household items. Includes a gallery of colorful finished pieces and details on 20 different projects.

Opening with a chapter on inspiration by examining the time-honored art of mosaics, this book then goes on to give instructions and clear guidance for a variety of projects. 200 color photos. 60 drawings.

Introduces the tools and techniques of mosaic art and presents nineteen projects, from decorative objects, such as wall hangings and picture frames, to practical ones, such as a clock, a cake stand, and a breakfast tray.

Step-by-step instructions & glorious original photographs will guide the crafter through exciting projects. This book includes large-scale projects suitable for interior or exterior use, reveals secret techniques, & easy to use products.

Each project is demonstrated with step by step photographs, and close up diagrams give added clarity to tricky stages. At a glance panels show the tools and materials you'll need, and actual sized photographs demonstrate the range of tiles necessary to complete the piece.

Number Mosaics has little in common with most other books of recreational mathematics. Though it contains much for the reader to marvel at and wonder about, it is far from being just another book of mind bending puzzles. It is more in the nature of a story of discovery and adventure in hitherto unexplored regions of the fascinating universe of numbers and patterns. As the story unfolds, the reader is drawn into it and soon becomes a member of the exploring party.The problems which feature in the book are intriguing in themselves, but the focus is not so much on obtaining the right answers as on the numerous and ingenious ways of arriving at the solutions.The approach adopted is similar to that often used in the past by old masters like Fermat, Euler and Gauss, to name a few. The critical examination of raw data initially invokes a response in the form of a conjecture which is then refined and tested in wider and wider fields.The book abounds with illustrative examples and illuminating diagrams, and throughout it the search for universals continues like a powerful undercurrent, as master keys are forged which work under all manner of changing conditions for solving a variety of problems, often without the need for calculations. This is a book which lovers of number lore will surely relish.