Martin Cheek

I read this for a home deco project I'm doing. It's a good introduction for beginners to mosaicing; it recommends tools, explains different types of tiles, lists the techniques, shows a gallery of works to inspire you, includes projects with a lot of details and tips, and finishes with a few templates to copy.

It's an easy book to follow, with useful techniques and tips, and lots of photos of finished works as well as step by step photos for the projects. I'm definitely finding it useful.

My show more toddler, who is into lowbellees and mobiles, is especially taken with a mobile of mosaiced strawberries; I may have to follow up my current project with that!

(August 2010)
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A great beginners' book. Comprehensive, useful and well organised information. Enabled my 8 year old son and I to complete our first project and achieve a pleasing result. I particularly like the detailed guidance on basic techniques such as cutting. The projects start of simple and straightforward enough for the novice to be able to derive a sense of achievement from, and then increase in complexity.
I browsed several bookshops looking at books to help me get started, and have not regretted show more going with this one. show less

Okay, but very conventional, not-terribly-interesting mosaic projects.