Tesserae The tiny tiles that are used in a mosaic that are placed on a piece of jewelry to make a design.
Tesserae - Tiny glass tiles which are combined to make intricate designs in Micro Mosaic Jewelry. Popular with Italian artisans.
Micromosaic: An object decorated with many small adjacent pieces (tesserae) of inlaid multi-colored glass or stone arranged to form a picture or design.
This is the most elaborate style of tesserae mosaics and is very figurative. The tesserae can be of glass and/or hard stone to depict images in a true way.
Micromosaic: An ancient Roman mosaic craft created by using minute pieces of colored glass or stone, called tesserae (tiles), applying up to 1,400 per square inch.
These sites appeared to be primarily focused on producing glass tesserae (from the Greek meaning 'four-sided') which were small glass or stone squares used as mosaic tiles for decorative purposes, ...
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