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romanmosaicist skip to content menu expanded collapsed courses about me historical technical contemporary author archives romanmosaicist blog now at romanmosaicist com i ve moved my blog to it s forever home at http www romanmosaicst com there s not much there but i will be posting soon lawrence posted by romanmosaicist march 20 2021 posted in general news leave a comment on blog now at romanmosaicist com experimenting with fused glass using the hammer and hardie to cut glass posted by romanmosaicist july 6 2020 posted in smalti tools tags hammerandhardie mosaic roman leave a comment on experimenting with fused glass glass cutting grinding polishing some years back i had some large smalti pieces so i thought i d try running them through the electric tile saw i had at the time i set the cut to be 4mm and this is the result they were about 40mm x 10mm x 4mm thick smalti is formed in pizza that are round continue reading glass cutting grinding polishing posted by romanmosaicist december 10 2019 posted in smalti stone tags glass hammer and hardie smalti leave a comment on glass cutting grinding polishing hand cut tesserae or machine cut one major problem we have to overcome now when making copies of roman mosaics is getting tesserae that are not all machine cut unless you have a hammer and hardie and have the time to cut from large tiles the chances are you will have to get in machine cut tesserae there are two problems continue reading hand cut tesserae or machine cut posted by romanmosaicist december 4 2019 december 4 2019 posted in general news leave a comment on hand cut tesserae or machine cut cutting marble that won t cutting marble that doesn t cut whether you are using nippers or a hammer and hardie if the piece of stone you are attempting to cut is not cutting then move the stone further out from under the blades look at the drawing here it is a front on drawing of a hammer over a piece continue reading cutting marble that won t posted by romanmosaicist november 30 2019 november 30 2019 posted in general news leave a comment on cutting marble that won t setting a geometric mosaic freehand setting a roman geometric mosaic without drawing out a pattern it is not a difficult as it sounds i have run numerous workshops taking complete beginners through this process and they have all been able to do it one thing you don t need to do is to learn the underlying geometry you need to understand continue reading setting a geometric mosaic freehand posted by romanmosaicist november 28 2019 november 28 2019 posted in general news leave a comment on setting a geometric mosaic freehand setting geometric patterns getting a good photo of a geometric pattern in a roman mosaic is essential you need to be able to work out the underlying geometry to understand how the pattern is put together what you must also realise is that quite a few of the patterns that have been set in the mosaic itself do continue reading setting geometric patterns posted by romanmosaicist november 24 2019 november 24 2019 posted in general news leave a comment on setting geometric patterns what tools did they use roman geometry building tools currently in the british museum we don t have any tools that we can say are specifically used for roman mosaic work so it is a case of just looking at what has been found and seeing what could have been used in that work what you must be wary of is assuming continue reading what tools did they use posted by romanmosaicist november 23 2019 november 23 2019 posted in general news leave a comment on what tools did they use marking your cuts does it make sense does marking your material make for better cuts it might at the beginning but it doesn t do you any favours at all this is something i see from time to time where people draw lines on the marble or smalti to guide them where to cut by doing this you do not help your eye continue reading marking your cuts does it make sense posted by romanmosaicist november 21 2019 november 21 2019 posted in stone tools tags cutting hammer hardie hardy marble mosaic roman tesserae leave a comment on marking your cuts does it make sense what s the pattern deciphering a roman geometric mosaic pattern can sometimes leave you with a number of choices the pattern is distinct from the geometry you can have the geometry of the mosaic worked out but still not be completely sure about the pattern look at the two drawings on the right you can see by the way continue reading what s the pattern posted by romanmosaicist november 20 2019 november 20 2019 posted in general news leave a comment on what s the pattern posts pagination 1 2 3 25 older posts facebook business page facebook business page twitter feed tweets by romanmosaics categories categories select category contemporary general news geometric patterns historical mosaic kits newsletters online course roman mosaic pattern database shop news smalti stone technical the work tools workshops learning follow on wordpress 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