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Avente Tile Talk: Interview with Nutmeg Designs

Tile Talk

This spring I was touched by the kindness of a simple gesture that few of us do in this electronic age, Margaret wrote a note thanking me for my support - on the cover was a joyful expression of her stain glass mosaics. How and when did you start creating the mosaic glass art masterpieces? Quilt blocks were my first inspiration.

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The University of Ceramic Tile and Stone’s (UofCTS) Online, “Understanding the Basics of Ceramic Tile” Course is Updated

CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

The updated course has an expanded section on glass tile and mosaics. There will be an expanded section on installing glass tile and mosaics, and most important all of the relevant industry standards will be updated or added. Both the USA version and the Canadian version of this course are being updated.

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Avente Tile Talk: Avente Tile Owner Selected to Participate in.

Tile Talk

Since its inception in 2003, Avente Tiles online tile showroom has sold hand-painted ceramic tile, handmade cement tile, and artisan tiles through various channels of the internet, including our website , this blog, Facebook , Twitter , Houzz , guest posts, and most importantly, word of mouth and repeat business. Margaret Almon Mosaics.

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Not that Kind of Mosaic: 25th Anniversary of the Web Browser

Margaret Almon Mosaics

Mosaic Browser 25th Anniversary. April 22, 1993: Mosaic Browser Lights Up Web With Color, Creativity. I was a graduate student in Library Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign when the NCSA(also at UIUC) Mosaic browser was added to the computer lab. When I graduated, the Mosaic Browser was not yet everywhere.

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Day Trip to The Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms: Lanterns Lit

Margaret Almon Mosaics

We took our first tour circa 2003, and I was smitten with the tiles, the copper hearths, the textiles and inlaid wood. Stratoz and I made our second day trip to Craftsman Farms , museum of furniture great Gustav Stickley, in Parsippany, NJ. I first discovered Craftsman Farms from an ad in American Bungalow quite a few years ago.

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Surprise Surprise: Tim Bavington’s Composition in Color

Margaret Almon Mosaics

Surprise, Surprise(2003) by Tim Bavington. Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY. Photo by Wayne Stratz. I wanted to revisit the Albright-Knox Gallery which I thought I saw in 2007, but it didn’t look familiar at all. Fortunately, it was a place worth visiting for the first time.

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Transformations Art and Craft Show 2013 Featured Artist: Bernard Hohlfeld of Roundwood Studio

Margaret Almon Mosaics

In 2003 Bernard began “ Roundwood Studio ” to explore the wonderful world of Artistic Woodturning. Sally Stang (pressed flower mosaic). . He is a member of the Bucks County Guild of Craftsmen, the Bucks Woodturners, the American Association of Woodturners and a Juried member of the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen. Transformations'