Mosaic Workshop: A Guide to Designing and Creating Mosaics

By Emma Biggs, Tessa Hunkin, Emma; Hunkin Tessa Biggs

Book Overview

In 24 colorful, stylish projects for home and garden, Mosaic Workshop offers a complete course in mosaic design and technique. For both novices and those more experienced, featuring 20 templates and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570761493
• ISBN13: 9781570761492
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Trafalgar Square Publishing
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.2" x 11.3"

Customer Reviews

I keep coming back to this book

This book is a great source of knowledge and inspiration for beginners and intermediate mosaicists. It combines technical basics with a discussion of color and design. The illustrations and examples mean that you have do do less of your own experimentation as the authors have already done a lot of the hard work for you.

Gets better with each reading...

As a relatively new mosaicist, I own several hardcover books by the well-known international artists. This is becoming my favorite. I often go to it to revisit a certain technique, or mosaic for inspiration or review, just to find myself rereading whole sections. When you are working on a new project, the perspective with which you read changes to accomodate the current work. The data on the page is the same, but you synthesize it in a new way. Because there is so much depth to the design aspects in this book, its like reading a new book each time. If I had to pick just one of my current books, this would be it.

You can never have too many mosaic books!

Wow - this is an amazing book that explores colour, tone, texture and technique in sufficient detail with great photos to match. Excellent for inspiration and learning the finer points of the mosaic art but not really suited for beginners. It only loses a star because the format is not the easiest to follow even though it is well laid out, and at first glance, it doesn't appear to be a workbook. But mosaic afficienados should really include this book on their "must-have" list, if not for the photos alone. Definitely recommended.