Please answer by 10.00pm on sunday 8th and i will award best answers
2006-10-08 08:37:54 · 3 answers · asked by Jay 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Other - Visual Arts
Tessera----either a small block used in the making of mosaic or a small square of bone, clay, etc, used as a token or a ticket.
2006-10-08 09:00:44 · answer #1 · answered by Guinevere 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Broken pottery and stone based materials that would make the variety of colours in the mosaic. The most common colour combinations were:
Ironstone - Red and brown
Limestone and sandstone - Yellow and brown
Slate - Blue and black
Chalk - White
Pieces of discarded and broken pottery. Clay artifacts that had burst whilst being fired in the furnace due to air pockets in the material.. These were used to make the various shades of colour that would be used in the mosaic.
2006-10-08 16:24:03 · answer #2 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
made pottery and kilned it
i think in seperat pieces becouse this lasts longer and the pieces are nice and precise
other methods shown involve making flat sheets and bracking it but do to the cracks that apper then it was delibratly made with precision profecional job not a hoby ( paid )
other methods we use to day are broken cups etc but do to the flatness of the work and quality and to boot how long it lasted...
only specialy prepered pieces must have been used and glazed
as modern as can be
2006-10-09 09:46:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋