A friend of my son went on a trip to Morocco . When he got back he had a lot to tell me about the art he saw. He told me he visited tombs and saw mosaics that were very intense ans geometric. He said that he saw so much of these mosaics that he would dream about the shapes at night!
Moroccan mosaics have been around since the 14th century. The colors that you see today were added to their mosaics in the 17th century. They refer to mosaic as Zellige. It is terra cotta tilework with enamel with chips set into plaster. Zellige is geometrical and it is used on walls, ceilings, fountains, floors, pools, and table among other things. They are beautiful to look at and at the same time they can be intense. This stimulates many mosaic ideas.
I can only imagine how hard it would be to fill whole walls with this type of mosaic. I do think it is a very beautiful type of mosaic. I would like to take a try at doing a geometrical mosaic. Although these types are usually large scale, I plan to start out small and practice this before I do anything large. I am going to experiment to understand how to plan such a complicated design.
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Mosaics are very beautiful, but so time consuming! Found you through Mercantile Muse.
I find it difficult to make the time to do mosaics in spite of the fact that I am retired. I was most productive when I went to open mosaic workshop at my teachers studio. I am fortunate to have this option.
It would be foolhardy to postulate that ornamental ceramics were already in existence in the 11th century,at the beginning of the 13th century, a survey of the city ordered by the Almohad ruler al-Nasir Muhammad (1199-1213) counted 188 ceramic workshops outside the city of Fes.http://www.ceramicstoday.com/articles/zillij_in_fez.htm
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‘The process has not varied for one millennium though conception and design has started using new technologies such as data processing”.(Zellige craftmanship WIKIPEDIA/zellige).
We have discovered new techniques in processing zillij.My techniques are simple and do not require any particular expertise and results in quicker production and a smoother, lighter table top or panel as no cement plaster .And doesn’t require iron edging means we can use other materials, such as trimmed with wood or bull-nose tile Furmah ,mosaic motifs,hand cut from “any ready made tiles “(7 to 8 mm thk) ,we prefer low sheen floor tiles (rustic or monochromatic color)
My style ,has an “outline”between each motifs ,so it looks more “crisp”.
I guess ,visual can justify.
Anybody can create zillij mosaic !!!
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When I was in high school, my art teacher taught us about mosaic. I think I got a good grade with that. Now I would like to do it again, trying artful work like this. I like colors and patterns.
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