Mosaics (Decorative Techiques Series)

Mosaics (Decorative Techiques Series)

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Book Description
Books in the Decorative Techniques series teach the various arts of home decoration. Each book focuses on a single craft, presenting comprehensive instructions and work-saving advice for do-it-yourself decorators. Step-by-step color photos come with detailed explanatory captions. Mosaics describes an ancient decorative art and craft that gained widespread popularity among Roman artisans more than two thousand years ago. Mosaic artwork incorporates pieces of many-colored and various sized stone or glass to create pictures or ornate abstract patterns. This book describes the materials and modern-day tools for working in mosaics. It also instructs in projects for making a variety of mosaic items, including decorative wall panels, patterned floors, colorful bathroom shelves, and smaller objects such as vases and Christmas tree ornaments.

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Decorative Techniques Series

Titles in this series are designed to help you master the various arts of home decoration. Each book focuses on a single craft with comprehensive instructions and work-saving advice. Full color, step by step photos, each with a detailed explanatory caption, guide you through each project.

Mosaics presents instruction in an ancient decorative art and craft that first gained widespread popularity among Roman artisans more than two thousand years ago. Mosaic artwork incorporates pieces of many-colored stone or glass to create pictures or ornate patterns. This book describes the materials and modern-day tools you’ll need to assemble for creating mosaic designs. It then guides you through a series of mosaic projects that you can adapt for your own home decorating projects. They include decorative wall panels, patterned floors, bathroom shelves, and much more.

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Book Contents:

1. Multicultural Feng Shui: Creating Harmonious Environments
2. Muqarnas - An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World: An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture (Muqarnas)
3. Nag Hammadi Bibliography 1970-1994 (Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies)
4. Oeuvres Philosophiques Et Scientifiques D'Al-Kindi: L'Optique Et LA Catoptrique (Islamic Philosophy, Theology, and Science)
5. Particles on Surfaces 8: Detection, Adhension and Removal
6. Petrus De Alvernia, Sententia Super Librum 'De Vegetabilibus Et Plantis (Aristoteles Semitico-Latinus, 13)
7. Philo's Flaccus: The First Pogrom : Introduction, Translation, and Commentary (Philo of Alexandria Commentary Series, V. 2)
8. Polyimides and Other High Temperature Polymers: Synthesis, Characterization and Applications
9. P. Papini Stati Thebaidos Libri XII: Recensuit Et Cum Apparatu Critico Et Exegetico Instruxit (Mnemosyne , Vol Suppl. 79)
10. Private Wildlife Conservation in Zimbabwe: Joint Ventures and Reciprocity (Afrika-Studiecentrum Series, V. 2)

Book Contents

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