Packing a mosaic for shipment
Mosaics are heavy and must ship in sturdy crates. I build mine from wood, and encase the mosaic inside with insulation foam. This is…
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Safe your place: Popup Mosaic School in Germany
The Popup Mosaic School returns with a workshop in Düsseldorf!
How to make a mosaic work surface from a stump
Make your own wooden stump with hardie, just like Italians use them.
Making Roman mosaic copies
All you need to know about making Roman mosaic copies: the how, why and who of this ancient art.
Red foxes and Altbier
A proof for being back in Germany: Using beer coasters in mosaic making.
Lo spazio: my new little studio in Düsseldorf
Workbenches, clay ovens, all kinds of tools and machines for working stone and wood on around 700 square meters: perfect for making mosaic!
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Contribute your own ideas to this blog as a regular author!
Bye bye, Spilimbergo
Whenever I feel thwarted in life, I know I need to change something. Some time ago it happenend to me ever more often, during my last year before becoming Maestra Mosaicista.
Ravenna Mosaico 2015
Every two years in autumn, Ravenna attracts even more mosaic enthusiasts than usual: Ravenna Mosaico, the festival with exhibitions and events opens with a weekend full…
Church mosaics installed in Sardegna
Do you remember my post on the mosaics for the church in Sardinia? Emilie Baudrais and Babylon Mosaic were asked to make 12 floor…
Back to school: Finally in 3rd!
So here I am again back to school, at Scuola Mosaicisti del Friuli, here in small Spilimbergo, not far from Udine and the Carnic Alps to compete…
Studying the grammar: 5 day colour and material workshop with great results
How to use the martellina efficiently and plan the andamenti of a mosaic had been subject of the preceding workshop Mosaic– The ABC: focus on andamenti & tools….
How to go with the flow: Andamenti + tools workshop successfully completed
Last week there was a new first time for me: My first time giving a workshop in Germany, along with Ruth Minola Scheibler, about…
Thou shalt not…
Anyone out there who can recite to me the 10 commandments? Not sure about them? No worries, me neither.
At sea
What could be more beautiful for a mosaicista in the summer than working on a mosaic made of blues and greens that form a foaming sea and wild waves?