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Sep 09 2008

Smalti Italian Mosaics!

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Jesus Christ, a Byzantine mosaic in the interior of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey.

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 [...]

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