© Copyright Cole Sonafrank 1990-2002
100+ Mosaic Artists & Studios & Recommended Books
500+ Stained Glass Artists & Studios & Recommended Books
- If there are other good mosaic forums or resources out there, please let me know!
- Forums Useful for Mosaic Work:
- Warner-Crivellaro's Glass & Stone Chat
- Angel's Silicon Folly Stone & Mosaic Forum
- Steven Cole's Stained Glass Stepping Stone Forum (no relation to me!)
- Mosaic Matters' Requests page
- Ceramic Tile Bulletin Board
- Natural-Stone Company's Bulletin Board
- Marble Institute of America's Message Center
- Stone Industry's Shop Talk
- Stone World's Bulletin Board
- Garden Accoutrements Bulletin Board
- Statuary Place Discussion Forum
- Decorative Concrete Forum
- InfoTile Forum
- NetForum - Messages In Topic: Tile Setting...
- The Rockhounds BBS
- The Lapidary Journal Bulletin Board
- Sinopia's Surface Treatment Forum
- Bob Vila's WWWBoard
- Other Mosaic Resources:
- Mosaic Matters, an excellent on-line magazine
Paul Bentley's Why everyone...should know about Byzantium
- Angel's Silicon Folly (includes an excellent stepping stone manual)
- The Society of American Mosaic Artists
- Mosaic Art's brief "History of Mosaics"
- George Fishman's "The Indirect Method of Mosaic"
- Mosaic Art Magazine
- Next Step's page on how stepping stones are made
- Sunshine Glassworks' Diamondcrete page
- Smallwood Garden's simple "Making Stepping Stones"
- Sven Warner's Mountaintop Mosaics (An excellent Italian smalti & tile supplier in Vermont)
- Angelo Orsoni, Mosaic Smalti since 1888, Venice, Italy
- Fiammenghi, Ravenna, Italy - source for hammer & hardie
- Tom Colson's Tiles On The Web - An excellent resource site
- Carter Glass Mosaics (supplier of Chinese & Mexican tile in Arizona)
- Michele Petno's Wits End Mosaic (supplier of Mosaic Merchantile & more in Florida)
- Sonia King's WhateverWerks Mosaic Studio
- Butler Enterprises small quantities of mortar ingredients
- Mosaic Tile Supply
- Oceanside Glasstile
- Spectrum Glass' Stones that Rock
- Olla Linda [Mexican] Import Gallery's Byzantium Mosaics (supplier in Texas)
- Mosaic Mercantile (wholesale only)
- Kolorines: Covering the World with Mosaics
- Smashing Tiles
- Sandhill Industries - Beautiful glass tiles from recycled glass.
- Mosaic Art Studio, Ravenna Italy (offers one week courses)
- Liam & Helen Striker's Faceted Glass(Dalle de Verre)
- My Bibliography of Recommended Mosaic Books
- Mosaic Mortar Material Matters
- Glass, Ceramic & Stone Tile & Stone Inlay & Stone Suppliers
- Search the Net, you'll find even more
- Other Mosaic Mortar Resources:
- Andrew Goss' Concrete + Metal Project (Art & information)
- A Glossary of Concrete Terms
- The Stamp Store Glossary
- Super-Tek's Glossary of Ceramic and Tile Terms
- Super-Tek's Consumer Guide to Selecting & Using Ceramic Tile Installation Materials
- Concrete: Scientific Principles (highly educational)
- High Performance Concrete (A wealth of valuable Gov. info)
- High Performance Concrete (more valuable Gov. info)
- Portland Cement Association
- The World of Concrete's Problem Clinic
- Search Architects' First Source for Products
- Build.com Home Page, a division of BuildingOnline Inc.
- The Aberdeen Group: Concrete and masonary information services
- Concrete Manufacturers Association
- Schundler Co: Uses of Perlite & Vermiculite as aggregate
- Canadian Building Digest article on superplasticizers
- CBD: Durability of Concrete Under Winter Conditions
- CBD: Admixtures in Portland Cement Concrete
- CBD: Calcium Chloride in Concrete
- CBD: Fibre-Reinforced Concrete
- CBD: Polymer Modified Concrete
- CBD: Volume Change & Creep of Concrete
- Union County College Prof J.A.Nathanson's basic concrete lesson
- Arizona St Univ Prof Barzin Mobasher's Concrete Materials Lecture Series
- South Bank Univ's Concrete Course by Peter Wright
Visit my other Stained Glass Artwork & Mosaic Mortar Material Matters pages for lots of links to resources, manufacturers, suppliers & studios:
- My Main Mosaic Mortar Material Matters page
- Mosaic Forums & Resources & Recommended Books
- Links to more than 100 Mosaic Artists & Studios
- Mosaic Mortar Formula and Instructions
- Mosaic Mortar Component Links
- Pigments of All Types
- Glass, Ceramic & Stone Tile & Stone Inlay
- Resins, Reinforcing, Inlay & Radiant Heating Systems
- Stained Glass Forums & Resources & Recommended Books
- Links to more than 500 Stained Glass Studios
- Soldering Tips & Remarks on Soldering Lead-Free
- The Sonafrank Family's Slot Car Racing Fun
- Politically Relevant Material , including Great Poetry & Real Spaghetti
Email comments (e.g. links I should add) to sonafrank@ElvesOfEster.com
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