What is mosaic?

Posted By on July 2, 2012

Firstly, what is mosaic?
Mosaic divided into two kinds, including ceramic mosaic tiles and glass mosaic tile. It is a kind of decorative arts, often using many small stones or fragments of colored glass to make up the pattern in the glass art in the church, also known as stainedglass. In the Byzantine Empire, the mosaic rise with the development of Christian churches and palaces in the form of murals. Nowadays mosaic refers to this type of colorful visual effects.

Secondly, Mosaic category introduction:
According to material, process, mosaic can be divided into several different categories. Glass mosaic can be divided in accordance with its process to single-sided cutting machine, cutting machine and hand cutting double-sided, non-glass mosaic can be divided in accordance with its material into ceramic mosaic, stone mosaic, metal mosaic and so on.

Ceramic mosaic is the most traditional kind of mosaic, with small and exquisite, but at the more monotonous, low grade.
Marble Mosaic, a variety of medium-term development of a mosaic, colorful, but the acid is poor, poor water resistance, so the market reflected is not very good.

Glass mosaic. Colorful glass mosaic brings vitality to mosaic. It is based on the different varieties of glass, divided into many small species:
1) Fusible glass mosaic. With silicate as the main raw material, melting in high temperature molding and was opaque or semi-emulsion-like, containing a small amount of bubbles and particles do not melt the glass mosaic.

2) Sintering glass mosaic. With glass powder as the main raw material, pressed into a certain amount of binder, etc. to pressing into size of Green; at a certain temperature sintered glass mosaic.

3) Golden star glass mosaic. It contains a small amount of bubbles and a certain amount of metal crystalline particles, with a clear case of light flashing glass mosaic.

 

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