07-04-2014, 02:44 AM
I've added 3 videos showing how to draw out some of the patterns in Roman mosaics. It shows the geometry underlying the patterns and allows you to draw them to a specific size of tesserae. If I were doing this as a mosaic onto a floor or baseboard this isn't how I would do it though. This works out the pattern and allows you to mark a staff, then I'd lay out the mosaic using the marks on the staff.
In the next week or so I hope to get a video up on using a staff to set one of these patterns, (there is no evidence Roman mosaicists used staffs but it seems the most logical way to work).
Solomon's knot
Solomon's knot with interwoven square
Triple strand guilloche border pattern
In the next week or so I hope to get a video up on using a staff to set one of these patterns, (there is no evidence Roman mosaicists used staffs but it seems the most logical way to work).
Solomon's knot
Solomon's knot with interwoven square
Triple strand guilloche border pattern