Blue and White Floral China Pebbles Porcelain Tiles are glazed ovals sold on sheets of fiberglass mesh, which can be pulled off or cut apart with scissors. These are made in a porcelain factory to look like tiles broken from china plates and rounded by tumbling. They have rounded edges and corners, as if they were rounded by tumbling on a beach, although the finish is shiny gloss not tumbled. The backs of the tiles are unglazed and have grooves to help adhesives and mortars bond more securely. There are three sizes of tiles that come mixed randomly in the sheet: 5/8-inch, 1-inch, and 1.5-inch. NOT ALL SHEETS CONTAIN THE 1.5-INCH SIZE. Most ovals are the 5/8 and 1-inch sizes.
Blue and White Floral China Pebbles Porcelain Tiles
- tile size: 5/8-inch, 1-inch, and 1.5-inch mixed RANDOMLY
- tile count: varies due to random size distribution
- sheet size: roughly 1/4 square foot
- thickness: 3/16 inch nominal
- sales unit: mesh sheet roughly 1/4 sq ft, not perfectly square due to the shape of the tiles.
- material: porcelain
- variety: glazed
- pigments: colorfast, UV resistant
- durability: frost-proof, impervious to liquid
- usage: suitable for indoor and outdoor use
Coverage
Roughly 1/4 square foot.
WARNING
Both His Holiness the Pope and His Holiness the Dalai Lama have issued edicts stating that these sheets are not perfectly square and vary sheet to sheet in shape and in piece count and that people who complain about this because they did not read the product description or look at the bleeding pictures should be ashamed of themselves.
Compatibility
These are slightly thicker than the glass tile we sell, but that isn’t a problem if you are wanting your mosaic to have texture with tiles and regions that are a little higher than others. (Raised elements might be problematic on a table top or floor, but for other mosaics, texture and dimension are an easy way to add visual interest to your work.)
Cutting Glazed Porcelain Tile
Glazed Porcelain Tile can be cut using the Compound Tile Nipper we sell.
Use in Mosaic Art
These are best used randomly with other materials in mixed-media mosaics or in pique assiette work with pieces cut from plates and dinnerware.
How To Make Mosaics
For more advice on designing your mosaic project or cutting and grouting tile, please see our Mosaic Frequently Asked Questions page or our How To Mosaic blog or our Mosaic Information Guide.
Blue and White Floral China Tiles 1-Inch 30 Pieces are glazed porcelain sold on sheets of fiberglass mesh, which can be pulled off or cut apart with scissors. These are made in a porcelain factory to look like tiles cut from china plates. The faces are not perfectly flat but bulged out with rounded edges and corners, and this makes the tiles look as if they were rounded by tumbling on a beach, although the finish is shiny gloss not tumbled. The backs of the tiles are unglazed and have grooves to help adhesives and mortars bond more securely.
Blue and White Floral China Tiles 1-Inch 30 Pieces
- tile size: 1 inch (25mm)
- sheet size: 6.375 inch x 5.375 inch
- thickness: 3/16 inch nominal
- sales unit: one mesh sheet of 30 tiles
- material: porcelain
- variety: glazed
- pigments: colorfast, UV resistant
- durability: frost-proof, impervious to liquid
- usage: suitable for indoor and outdoor use
Coverage
One sheet of 30 pieces will cover 0.23 square feet assuming a standard grout gap of approximately 1/8 inch. To cover 1 square foot, you would need 4 sheets plus 1 tile, which would give you 121 tiles arranged 11 pieces x 11 pieces. We sell these for use as accents instead of area coverage.
Compatibility
These are slightly thicker than the glass tile we sell, but that isn’t a problem if you are wanting your mosaic to have texture with tiles and regions that are a little higher than others. (Raised elements might be problematic on a table top or floor, but for other mosaics, texture and dimension are an easy way to add visual interest to your work.)
Cutting Glazed Porcelain Tile
Glazed Porcelain Tile can be cut using the Compound Tile Nipper we sell.
Use in Mosaic Art
These 1-inch tiles can be used to make borders around mosaic pictures or used randomly with other materials in mixed-media mosaics or in pique assiette work with pieces cut from plates and dinnerware. Used in sheets for area coverage, these could make a great kitchen backsplash.
How To Make Mosaics
For more advice on designing your mosaic project or cutting and grouting tile, please see our Mosaic Frequently Asked Questions page or our How To Mosaic blog or our Mosaic Information Guide.
White Lampwork Glass Beads are large and chunky and sold in 4 ounce assortments of approximately 25+ pieces. These beads are competitively priced by weight for use in mosaic art, but the diameters of most of these beads are 1/2 inch or more, which means they best pressed into mortar or concrete instead of being glued to a flat surface.
Product Coverage
This is a problematic question because beads was intended to be used as an accent instead of as area coverage, and the piece size can vary. One 4-ounce assortment covers roughly 3+ square inches.
Compatibility
The White Lampwork Glass Beads are usually 3/8 inch or larger in diameter, which is thicker than mosaic of the glass mosaic tile we sell. For this reason, these beads are best used by pressing into a bed of thinset mortar or a stepping stone mold filled with concrete.
Cutting White Lampwork Glass Beads
Some of these beads are too large to be cut using a Mosaic Glass Cutter because they won’t fit into the jaws. These beads are best used uncut.
White Lampwork Glass Beads 4oz<
- Price is per 4 ounces. (Approximately 25+ pieces.)
- Diameter: mostly 1/2 inch or more.
- Length: up to 1 inch.
- Coverage: should cover roughly 3+ square inches.
- Material: glass of varying degrees of translucence.
- frost proof.
- impervious to liquids.
- Suitable for indoor and outdoor installation.
- Not suitable for floors.
How To Make Mosaic Art
For more advice on designing your mosaic project or mounting, cutting, and grouting tile, please see our page of Mosaic Frequently Asked Questions or our Mosaic Information Guide, which lists instructional pages described by topic. We also post new articles about making mosaics at our How to Mosaic Blog.
