Choosing Plates And Cups For Mosaics
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- čas přidán 26. 04. 2020
- In this video I will show you what I look out for before purchasing cups and plates for mosaics.
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Hey Peter, good filmette... but just to add that using plates for an outside wall does work.... I would suggest porcelain crockery as they would have been fired in the kiln at a very high temperature and not likely to crack. Using crockery on a surface such as a horizontal wall may be tricky as ice may blow the ceramic and break. 😘
Thanks so much Caroline, yes I agree with you porcelain is definitely the way to to go. I pinned your comment to the top. Thanks for chiming in. :)
Hi Caroline! I was actually re-watching some of your videos recently and wondering how you select crockery for your beautiful artworks... Patterns, shape, thickness, etc... Maybe you could also make a video on that? Please :)
@@elinarosenblum1882 nice idea ! I'll possibly do that soon ! Let me mull on it!
So appreciate the time and energy that you have given to the community to share your expertise. That has been very generous of you, and I’ve learned so much from your videos! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Thankyou so much Bonnie l appreciate that. Thankyou for watching and commenting. 😊
Peter, thank you so much for reading my mind and making just the video I needed!! Wonderful and useful, as always.
My pleasure, thanks for watching, I also made a video previously on cutting up the plates as well. :)
Thank you for the great advice. I will definitely become more discerning. 👍
Thankyou so much Lee, I have learnt over time that its best to be more selective unless you have heaps of room to store things. :)
Excellent!! Thank You for the information! Very interesting. Great examples! Very clear.
My pleasure Sunshine and thankyou for watching. 😊
Thanks for another really helpful video!
Thankyou very much, glad you enjoyed it. :)
And here I'm thinking that I could just have fun smashing things for my mosaic creation to come 🤣🤦♀️
LOL You still can, its still so much fun to smash and adhere. lol
@@TreasuryRoad that's what I was hoping, makes me feel better now😅 . I want mine to be eclectic and uneven. Excellent and informative videos by the way 👍😊
I am just starting mosaics, thank you for all theses basic knowledge , will be very useful!
My pleasure, thanks for watching. :)
Great tips!!! thank you
Thankyou Mark and my pleasure. :)
Very helpful. Thank you.
My pleasure Suzannah and thankyou for watching. :)
Thanks for sharing this information. I am just getting started in creating mosaics and wanted to use unloved or chipped, cracked unwanted crockery.
I now have the knowledge and understanding that it isnt as simple as i first thought but now have the confidence to find the correct items to use. Thank you. 🥰
Thankyou so much Maggie, appreciate that. If you are going to use crockery inside its easier than choosing crockery for outside because the conditions are not near as harsh inside. Thanks for watching and commenting. :)
Wow…I learned a ton! I bought plates and cups and think I made a few mistakes! Thanks for this info!
Thankyou very much JC, the mistakes are opportunities to learn, if you aren’t making mistakes, you’re not challenging yourself. 😊
Thank you!
My pleasure, thanks for watching. :)
Great video! I've had to use some curvy pieces with the foot underneath and my solution is to use my glass grinder to reduce the foot edge. That really makes a difference. Keep up the good work!
Thankyou so much appreciate that. I do the same thing l have an old glass grinder for that, it’s not great for the grinder head though but we go with what works. Lol Thanks for watching and commenting. 😊
I've just started mosaic and I'm using plates and cups. Nothing with crazing on it. I'm gonna use them outside. I think I'll be happy with 5- 10 years livity. Im in SA so no freezing In Winter etc.
Mosaics are so good, I've been using plates outside and find them great to work with, how long they last for outside really depends on the elements and the plates themselves but either way you will get a lot of enjoyment out of them. Thanks for watching. :)
Thank you much appreciated. I love colour is it better to work with simply and decorative plates.?
Thankyou Ebony, appreciate that. It really depends on the piece you are creating, a bold piece with bold colours or a smaller delicate piece. I tend to use any plate that works with the piece I'm creating, there's no hard and fast rules as long as it looks good to you that's the important thing. Breaking the art rules can reap great benefits and go beyond the normal, its how we not only find ourselves but how our pieces grow and how new designs and techniques are found. :)
Could one seal the edges of the cheap plates after breaking to use outdoors? Ones that are not porcelain or high fired - I have specific relief raised edged plates that I love the look of that I would like to use.
You could seal the edges and that may help however plates are not meant to be outside so it will still be a risk depending on the environment they are in. :)
Hola Peter :)
Thanks for this tutorial ! I am learning so much!
The reason we don't use different mosaic (tessera, plates, etc.) thickness in our projects is because when you grout, the pieces show up uneven, right?
:( I had the experience and my pot really looked "ugly" after the grout dried.
🤗 Saludos!
Thankyou very much. I use different tessera in some of my mosaics and the different heights add interest and texture as long as there isn't a great difference in the heights, I just clean the grout away from the edges but its a personal choice. Have a look at the video I have on creating a Mosaic Pot I use different heights in the video. But if you were to create a table you would want the tess to be all the same thickness
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Dear Peter I am just starting on a load of crockery for inside a Victorian storm porch. Its my first mosaic. We are a rainy, cold area - Manchester UK.. It has some shelter ie under the porch. Will it be okay?
I cant tell you that as a definite as it depends on the crockery and the environment, the adhesive, there are a number of factors. If you are using porcelain crockery it should be fine and to be honest if its out of the actual weather it all should be good. Its really the freeze thaw that can be brutal on crockery as water droplets expand around 8% causing the pieces to crack. Avoid crockery that has crazing in it as well, or soft crumbly crockery, the higher its been fired the better it is and the harder it is to cut. I would also be using thinset as your adhesive and using the baggie system, make sure its suitable for the crockery as there are different thinsets. Have a look at my other videos as well. :)
Peter how do you tell if it’s porcelain or not? What should I look for? Libby
Generally it will tell you underneath the plate, it will tell you ceramic, porcelain, etc. After you have been working with plates for a while you can tell by the feel of the plate and the thickness, this isn't always fool proof but it does allow you to have a calculated guess. Thanks for watching and commenting Libby. :)
Do you tile inside of the cup or just grout?
If you have cut the cup in half and apply the cup to the substrate, you dont have to do anything else inside the cup. Of course this depends on the project you are doing. 😊
When you say to "test the grout on the gold area".......Do we leave grout on the gold part for 24 hours? Why do this, the grout will only be on top of the tess for a few minutes, right?
There have been instances where the gold has come off for some people when grouting, I would just get a bit of mixed grout and try it on a piece to see if it the gold comes off as if you were grouting the mosaic piece, that way it should show if theres going to be an issue but its a personal preference to do this or not.
Hi Peter, how can I recognize a crockery is a porcelain one without cutting?
Im not sure what you mean. :)
@@TreasuryRoad if you're buying a plate how do you know it's porcelain?
@@KMF3 It will generally have Porcelain on the back of it, can also be known as fine china. The more you work with plates the more you get to have a good idea of the type of plate your going to be dealing with. Also if you break a plate and you put a drop of water onto it if it absorbs into the plate then its not porcelain. :)
Are you able to seal the edges of the porous peices so they don’t absorb moisture?
I think some people have but I personally haven't. You could use Litokol epoxy grout which is waterproof and I think that would work but I would test it first, I do use epoxy grout on all my outdoor pieces but the climate is moderate here. You would also need to make sure that there is no moisture in the porous pieces because you would want to avoid sealing in moisture. Thanks for watching and commenting. :)
@@TreasuryRoad ok cool. Thank you.
Would you put the porous peices in the oven to make sure the moisture is gone?
Are you using glass wheel cutter for that plate ??
They are Leponitt double wheeled nippers, a good nipper for general use. Cutting glass, crockery, some ceramic and some porcelain. They are one of the most popular nippers on the market. :)
Thankyou lots
I'm just wondering if you know what kind of materials were used for mosaics in churches that have lasted hundreds of years or even longer. They must have used some really heavy-duty materials to put together those mosaics.
Yes very true it depends on the timeline and where as to what materials were used, pulverized stone and mortar, lime mortar, coloured glass was also used small tess was cut from stone and different colours, pebbles, marble, pottery, really anything that was hard. This is from my understanding but have a Google many things will probably come up. :)
Peter love your videos can you check you messages on Facebook please asking about grouting
Hi Lisa, thankyou so much, you are better off posting in one of the Facebook groups or here as the DM job requests generally don't get passed on to me. :)
With other things that I have been watching your pieces do not have to be perfectly flat.
Thats correct they dont have to be totally flat, however if they are flat or close to it they will have more surface area for adhesion and also less edges protruding out. The idea is to have the mosaic fairly flat to touch of course depending on the type of mosaic and how you want it to be. :)