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My sister sent me a pic of some of the smalti tiles we chose from in our last class – as you can see, it’s much brighter and more colorful than the smalti used in Byzantine art: I chose lots of blues and greens – at the moment I thought something oceanic sounded cool… but [...]

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 [...]