West Dean courses

If you happen to be in the vicinity of West Dean College, check out their summer mosaic courses. You have the choice of residential or non-residential options and there are top notch tutors involved.

Glass and mosaics – Mosaics

Glass and mosaics – Mosaics

June 17 – June 22,2007

• Designing and making a mosaic project
  
  Emma Biggs
• Reference: FD 251
• Ability:b/c/d

June 17- June 22, 2007

• Light, shade and texture in mosaics
  
  Sonia King
• Reference: FD 252
• Ability:b/c/d

June 29- July 01, 2007

• Getting started with mosaics
  
  Jo Letchford
• Reference: WE 260 (CC)
• Ability:a/b

July 28- August 03, 2007

• Mosaic projects – a structured approach
  
  Emma biggs
• Reference: SS 11
• Ability:c/d

August 17- August 20, 2007

• Pebble mosaics for the garden
  
  HilaryShand
• Reference: LW 334 (CC)
• Ability:a/b/c/d

October 05 – October 07, 2007

• Getting started with mosaics
  
  Jo Letchford
• Reference: WE 401 (CC)
• Ability:a/b

October 07 – October 10, 2007

• Pebble mosaics for the garden
  
  Hilary shand

  Reference: 3D 413 (CC)

• Ability:a/b/c/d

October 11, 2007

• Pebble mosaic making – a taster day
  
  HilaryShand

  Reference: TD 26 (CC)

• Ability:a/b

October 25 – October 28, 2007

• Mosaics with glass
  
  Jo Letchford
• Reference: LW 438 (CC)
• Ability:b/c/d

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How to hang a heavy mosaic

You’ve created your masterpiece. You have the perfect wall in your house. But what’s the best way of attaching it to that wall so that it won’t come crashing down and giving someone a serious head injury?

This question came up on the Moz Addict list today and Sonia King had words of wisdom and suggested a Z clip or French cleft system.

Z clips are often used in tile roofing so that may be a place to start if you don’t know where to find them.

 

If you want more info about French clefts, check out the files on the Yahoo Mosaic Addicts  or MAO list.

It arrived!! Yippee!!

It being “Mosaic Techniques & Traditions: Projects & Designs from Around the World” by Sonia King.

Having had my nose stuck in this book for the better part of the afternoon, I can definitely say that this book is an ESSENTIAL for the mosaics bookshelf. Loads of wonderful droolworthy photos, fantastic chapters on technique, tools and materials with loads of real life practical tips. I don’t think there would be many questions that couldn’t be answered by this book.
Incredibly comprehensive but it also has plenty of good “coffee table book” photos.

Buy it if you want a book. I can see this one being a bit of a mosaics bible.

Sonia’s website can be found at http://www.mosaicworks.com/ .

And if you live downunder I can recommend Fishpond as a source for this book. Their prices are excellent and there is a lot of free shipping at the moment. Great service. The book took a while to arrive even though I had received an email telling me it had been sent. I contacted them to tell them it hadn’t showed and they promptly organised a replacement book. Of course the parcel then arrived. Word of warning: my book was actually sourced from NZ even though I went through an Australian website. It may take 2-5 days to reach the East Coast of Australia from Auckland [which is the time quoted in the email and on the website] but they haven’t taken into consideration the time to get to Darwin which is usually a week plus if it comes from Sydney. I’ve had mail arrive faster from Florida in the USA [try 5 days!] than from Sydney…

But I digress…buy this book if you want to take your mosaics past the beginner stage – because there is no way I am going to let anyone borrow my copy!