Mosaic For The Colorful Crafter

Posted October 6th, 2008 at 8:26 pm in Crafters & Crafting

This little piece of work, strips of Mexican tile laid on a plywood and wonderboard overlay, is almost four feet long, and two feet high! It was created to be photographed as the header for a new craft website. As it turned out it became an image for a single post for crafters to observe. Ah, well, you have to go with the flow sometimes and maybe someday MexicanMosaic.com will have it's own forum. For now we are very happy with the crafts and craft projects contained within this blog.

Colors That Crafters Love

You can blow the image up to see the colors by hovering your mouse over the image and clicking it. You will see the wild colors that you can find in the patterns of 4" Mexican tile, particularly the hand-painted variety. I used a wet saw to cut the pieces (keeping them uniform in size while varying the lengths) for the border and the flower patterns then repeated what I call a random pattern from top to bottom and from side to side. The field of off-white tile in the center was done in a random pattern to balance the repeating strips. I grouted it with a Home Depot sanded grout color called red clay.