Making MosaicWelcome
to my Making Mosaic page! I tried to gather the simplest mosaic ideas
here so everyone can make, even little kids withouth help from grownups.
 Fortunately, you don't
need any special accessories, just small pieces of any
material. (For example: pebbles, leaves, shells, etc.)The history of
the making
mosaic is
very long
and noble.
It both
linked to decoration and
function.
In
Ancient Greece the first pavements were made by assembling pebbles. The
Romans continued this craft, developing and refining the techniques by
using naturally colored marble and stone.
During the
Renaissance making mosaics declined, because oil paintings and frescos
became
very popular.
 Pebble is
one of the thousands of
material that you can use in mosaic work.Mosaic
materials:
Mosaic making can be very-very complicated, but also can be very simple. For example, if you put some leaves beside each other and it forms a picture, that's a very simple mosaic.  I don't deal with the complicated mosaic that much, because they're not for kids. However, there's a 'complicated mosaic' idea, the number plaque. Mosaic ideas with step-by-step guidelines:
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