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Garden Mosaics Project Book

By Celia Gregory
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Garden Mosaics Project Book by Celia Gregory offers over 25 original mosaic projects to enhance your outdoor spaces. With more than 400 photographs, this guide provides step-by-step instructions for creating stylish designs, from elegant urns and garden tables to decorative plaques and bird bowls. The book covers everything from materials and tools to techniques and finishing, making it easy to transform patios, paths, and walls with vibrant, handcrafted mosaics.
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This book is ideal for craft enthusiasts and garden lovers seeking creative ways to beautify their outdoor areas, whether beginners or those with some experience in mosaic making.

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Adding a mosaic will add life and interest to a garden path, transform a patio or cheer up dull old walls. The principles of mosaic making are easy to master. This book gives you all the practical advice you may need on the basic techniques and materials, including concise information on the adhesives and tools required.

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Garden Mosaics Project Book offers stylish ideas for decorating your outside space with over 400 stunning photographs and 25 step-by-step projects. Transform an outdoor space with inspirational mosaic designs from leading contemporary designers; illustrated with 400 step-by-step photographs and artworks.

Featuring 25 original projects, graded by difficulty, which can be completed in several hours or over a weekend, this book combines practical chapters on making mosaics with detailed instructions on the tools needed, materials, techniques, grouting, and finishing. It also provides design tips and information on planning and siting your work.

Discover decorative new ideas for the patio and garden, including urns, bird bowls, number plaques, boules, and tables, as well as large-scale mosaic installations. Easy-to-follow instructions show how to produce stunning visual effects by mixing glass, mosaic tesserae, tiles, broken crockery, and pebbles.

The principles of mosaic making are easy to master, and Garden Mosaics Project Book gives you all the practical advice you will need on the basic techniques and materials, including concise information on the adhesives and tools required. Adding a mosaic will add life and interest to a garden path, transform a patio or cheer up dull old walls.

The book contains over 25 exciting projects graded by level of difficulty, including jazzy china tiles, bright flower pots, cheery wall motifs, an elegant urn in classical style, a stunning glass garden table, and a striking metal and tile pond. Each project details the tools and materials needed, with comprehensive instructions, step-by-step photographs, and templates where required.

This beautiful book will enable the reader to design and make your own mosaic projects to enhance any outdoor space.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781780191669

Publisher: Anness Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 16 July 2012

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Southwater

Illustration: over 400 photographs

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 216.0mm

Height: 280.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 128

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Arts & Culture Arts and Crafts Celia Gregory Crafts & Hobbies Home & Garden Non-Fiction

About the Author

Helen Baird is a fine arts graduate who makes various styles of mosaics for numerous clients including Liberty in London, as well as selling work privately. She is also a successful freelance artist and illustrator.

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