Glass Mosaic: In Craft and Interior decoration

Glass in one form or another has always been a popular medium for both artists and craftsmen to use for many years. In recent decades the worldwide boom in arts and craft as a hobby has been dramatic. Now many people are able to create their own art glass projects because the costs of glass and astained glass have decreased so much. Delphi Glass are one of the best online providers of stained glass, mosaic and craft materials.

The are a massive range of glass arts, however one of the easiest and cheapest to get started with is creating stained glass mosaics. Because you only need to use small pieces of glass, offcuts of stained glass sheets can be purchased at much lower costs than a full sheet. You can utilise the waste pieces of glass which a traditional stained glass craftsman would not have a use for.

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In the past decade there has been a great interest in home improvement and restyling of home interiors. There has been a great increase in the poularity of using glass mosaic tiles to decorate both bathrooms and kitchens. With the high quality and durable glass tiles now being manufactured in countries such as china and India, it is now quite affordable to have a room totally tiled with beautiful colored glass mosaic tiles.

Glass mosaic tiles have been in existence for a long long time. In fact ever since glass was first produced, it has been cut into smaller more manageable pieces and used in art and for decorative purposes. Historically, such glass mosaic pieces would be hand cut into 'smalti'. Smalti was basically small colored glass tiles which were rough in texture and often contained small air bubbles and inperfections.

Artists of the Byzantine Empire are thought to have been the first culture to really develop and embrace the use of coloured glass mosaic, following on from the mosaic techniques of the Greeks and Romans. They expanded the use of glass mosaic to decorate temples and public areas, establishing the material as an important architectural device.

By the Victorian age, the fashion for glass tile was reemerging in the west, partly due to the new industrial processes which allowed it to be made in more consistent forms. This trend carried on through the Art Nouveau period of the early 20th century. The medium has always lent itself to artistic styles of architecture, in religious buildings and in public spaces and artworks. However until recently it has not been utilised that much in domestic settings.