by Suzann Thompson | Dec 9, 2021 | Knitting, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
Mosaic knitting is a kind of slipped stitch color knitting. Barbara G. Walker made it famous. She charted and published all kinds of patterns and motifs. Once you figure out how to chart mosaic patterns, you can make surprisingly representative patterns, like this...
by Suzann Thompson | Mar 21, 2008 | Life, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
Eva and I are recovering from a busy school trip to Florida. When we stepped out of the plane at the Orlando airport, there was a gorgeous mosaic. It was probably about 30 feet long. These pictures show only a small part of it. What a great start to our spring...
by Suzann Thompson | Mar 7, 2006 | Life, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
Gold tesserae have a thin layer of 24-carat gold sandwiched between one thick and one thin layer of glass. Ancient mosaicists used gold to symbolize the light of God and to actually reflect light from those lofty mosaics down to the church-goer at floor level....
by Suzann Thompson | Mar 6, 2006 | Life, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
Ravenna’s Byzantine and Roman mosaics are famous and beautiful and mostly very difficult to photograph, because they are so high or so large. You can find good pictures of Ravenna’s ancient mosaics and their fascinating history online and in books. Better yet, go...
by Suzann Thompson | Mar 4, 2006 | Life, Retro Blog Post, TextileFusion
Luciana Notturni is the master mosaicist and founder of the Mosaic Art School that I’ve been writing about these last couple of weeks. She teaches workshops like the one I took, about three times a month. She teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts and the School”...
