Sep 09 2008
Smalti Italian Mosaics!
My sister had the fun idea for us to take an Italian mosaics class together and we just got out of the first class – I’m so excited! We’re using smalti for our mosaics in this class and I just love it! The tile is formed by mixing molten glass with metal oxides and it comes out as this cloudy looking tile – just beautiful! I (already) can’t imagine using anything else for my mosaics.
Many Byzantine mosaics like the following were made with smalti tiles and the tiles are either used as-is or covered with gold leaf:
Jesus Christ, a Byzantine mosaic in the interior of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey.
I ordered a bunch of colors and they should be coming in next week… now… to figure out the design!
[...] Smalti Italian Mosaics! [...]
I’m so excited to get our smalti this week and start on our projects!
I don’t remember your mosaics looking quite like this, Jen. ha.
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