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Glass Mosaic
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A glass mosaic is a coherent pattern or image in which each component element is built up from small regular or irregular pieces of glass, held in place by plaster (or mortar or adhesive) entirely or predominantly covering a plane, a curved surface or even a three dimensional shape, and normally integrated with its architectural context.
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 The shapes of a glass mosaic are cut into squares, rectangles, triangles or trapezoids. Generally they are cut in the size of 20x20, 30x30 or 40x40mm with a thickness of 4-6mm. There are various colours available in the market.
A glass mosaic can be made in transparent, tinted transparent, semitransparent, gold or silver speckled, striated or floriated styles. The pieces are smooth on the front but with rough tiny lines on the back made with sand slurry that enable them to adhere to the plaster.
A glass mosaic is pearlescent when exposed to the sunlight and if it was applied to the outside of a building it can also clean itself on rainy days. Because of their soft hues, the various types of gorgeous appearance, the excellent clinging capacity of the pieces, their stable chemical state, their freedom from fading, freedom from dirt and their durability, glass mosaics are widely used in the interior and exterior decoration of constructions, such as hotels, office buildings, houses, cottages, murals, small gardens?
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Last review: February, 2006 |
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