All posts tagged “tesserae”

August 26, 2017
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Smalti

The guy who imports all the smalti mosaic tiles is located not far from us, near Queensway and Royal York here in the west end of Toronto. I stopped in today and bought about 15 lbs of Italian smalti tiles. These are very expensive but… Read More

February 11, 2013
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Suggestions?

I’m looking for a quick and easy way to break old crockery and tiles into tesserae for mosaics. We bash items with a hammer and we use nippers to do more controlled work, but when you’re doing a large mosaic, creating the little bits is… Read More