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Product Description:
This comprehensive, one-of-a-kind sourcebook is now revised and expanded with 32 additional pages. Ideal for architects, landscape designers and home crafters, it features authoritative text and beautiful photographs that explore classic and new mosaic materials, designs, tools and techniques.
The book opens with a section on techniques used in designing, making and installing pebble mosaics, including information on patterns, mosaics for frost-prone areas, how to pre-cast a mosaic, computer-aided patterns and unusual materials. Step-by-step photographs with clear how-to instructions show how each project is made. Maggy Howarth shares her designs templates for:
Allover patterns and interlacing patterns
Repeating centric patterns and borders
Celestial forms and geometrics
Humans and mythological figures
Reptiles, fish, insects, birds and other animals
Flowers, trees and other plants.
There is also a special section that explores pebble mosaics as a decorative art throughout history. Complete Pebble Mosaic Handbook is a rich resource of design ideas, many based on Howarth's personal creations.
(20090430)
Customer Reviews:
Average Rating:
Rating: - Fantastic book!
This book is a gem. Great full-color illustrations, cleanly written text, and clear How-to instructions.
A keeper!
Rating: - I love this book!!
This book makes me want to pepple mosaic my whole yard!! I am so intrigued by the opportunities this medium presents!!
The book is very informative as to installation techniques....but what thrilled me were the wide variety of designs presented!!
A project such as this would truly make a walkway, or a patio area simply outstanding....!!
Rating: - A fabulous handbook on pebble mosaicing
I am so impressed with the detailed information and instructions provided with this book. It covers all aspects of working with pebbles and stone mosaics. It also has lots of pictures of projects from around the world and offers lots of ideas for individual projects. The book is very well set out. I highly recommend this book.
Rating: - Moasics
This book is very good. It has complete and detailed instructions as well as wonderful ideas to inspire.
Rating: - Great idea book
My Dad collects books like this for pictorial inspiration. He said this book was very useful and had lots of fresh ideas.
