Earth, Wind & Tiles – Grout types, admixtures, mixing, curing, and sealing
Great article on various types of grout, things to look out for…
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All posts for the day June 29th, 2006
This mosaic can be seen from rough sketch:
to the final product:
The process is a fascinating one and it is interesting to see how the original concept changes to fit the tiles at hand and the skills and preferences of the mosaicist.
The mosaic is by Dutch mosaicist Brit Hammer of Earth Wind & Tiles
This website is worth exploring; there is a lot of useful material here.
Jim Power – Mosaic Man, originally uploaded by Lorcan Otway.
Jim Power, otherwise known as the Mosaic Man is featured in a photoset by Lorcan Otway in a very nice piece of photojournalism. This man is currently living in a tend on a street in downtown New York where he covers the neighbourhood in mosaic. Lampposts, tabletops, signs, even a bus stop bench. Keep an eye on this photoset – its a really interesting one.
Rooster Mosaic, originally uploaded by mharrsch.
This glorious rooster lives at the National Museum of Rome in Italy.
Mosaic Tile Color Families – Mosaic Mercantile Online
A sample board is probably the best way of making the final grout colour choice but tools such as these allow you to narrow the choices of grout colour down.
Matters of Madness August 2003
I’m really enjoying what I’m seeing on the mosaic madness website.
Tip number 1
Do your homework. Always, always, always, do a grout sample board. It’s simple to do. Get all those offcuts from your mosaic design and do a 10cm square colour replica (don’t reproduce your design in miniature) and do this three times so that you can explore with three different coloured grouts. Try using extreme colour variations so that you can see the impact. For example, you could use light blue, black and terracotta and see what happens. Also make sure that the spacing between your sample board tiles is similar to the spacing in your actual design. Trust me it makes a difference.
The design I’m working on now has a black background. I’m wondering if black grout will overwhelm it and whether another dark colour would work better eg a dark blue. So its very nice to see how people suggest doing a sample board.
An Evaluation of Tiling Software
This is written by someone who wanted to tile his floor rather than do complex mosaics but it gives a good starting point on the prs and cons of common software packages out there.
