San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co · leaf 407
e will result in quite as *ttrsnTuntil the Romans came upon the scene that the baking or dryingin kilns of the bricks and other clay articles came into vogue. I was under thisaggressive and progressive nation that art tiles and mosaic work came mto use, anri the real historv of clay art began. , ,… … Machines for Stamping- Tiles were paved with mosaics. As a rule cut stones or glass squares were used. Inthe Vatican, in Rome, are mosaics containing 25,000 different shades and tints.The designs are made of smalts or opaque glass, from which was cut the littlesquares called tesserae. There are in…
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