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2. Tile - Wikipedia

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   Making mosaic tiles Cross section of an earthenware tile Section through a porcelain stoneware slab The elaborate floor pattern of the Sydney Queen Victoria Building Floor tile in Karpas, northeastern Cyprus 6"×6" porcelain floor tiles Patio with stone tile, Hawaii, US 1960 Cracked tile flooring

3. Mosaic - Wikipedia

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   A mosaic is a pattern or image made of small regular or irregular pieces of colored stone, glass or ceramic, held in place by plaster/mortar, and covering a surface. [1] Mosaics are often used as floor and wall decoration, and were particularly popular in the Ancient Roman world.

4. Glass tile - Wikipedia

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   Glass was used in mosaics as early as 2500 BC, but it was not until the 3rd century BC that innovative artisans in Greece, Persia, and India created glass tiles.. Whereas clay tile is dated as early as 8,000 BC, there were significant barriers to the development of glass tile, including the high temperatures required to melt glass and the complexities of annealing glass curves.

5. 17 Designer-Approved Modern Coffee Bar Ideas We're ... - AOL

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   Coffee Bar with Tile Backsplash Making a statement in your kitchen via bold tile backsplashes is nothing new, but this particular coffee bar is an anti-statement in a way: subtle and demure as it is.

6. Tessera - Wikipedia

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   In early antiquity, mosaics were formed from naturally formed colored pebbles. By roughly 200 BC cut stone tesserae were being used in Hellenistic-Greek mosaics. For instance, a large body of surviving material from the Hellenistic period can be found in the mosaics of Delos, Greece, dating to the late 2nd century BC.

7. Cosmati - Wikipedia

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   This mosaic is depicted in Hans Holbein's The Ambassadors. The general style of works of the Cosmati school is more closely related to Romanesque art , even though some of the buildings they worked in are Gothic , as in their main lines are their larger structures, especially in the elaborate altar-canopies, with their pierced geometrical tracery.