Indirect Face Tape Mosaic Method

With this method you apply clear tape to the front side – the faces – of your mosaic tesserae, holding them in place until they are fixed in their final setting. You can work directly and see exactly how your mosaic is taking shape and then, by placing tape on the surface your work is preserved for installation later. Hence the term “indirect”, you are building your mosaic one place (your studio) and then moving it to its final situation as a separate task. The technique works best when your materials are approximately the same thickness.

Sometimes the use of mosaic face tape is called the double direct technique, because you can see the right side of your tesserae as you lay them, you are working directly, yet all is moved and directly placed in its final setting bed as a separate task. There are some tricks to success and in this video we demonstrate using stained glass, unglazed porcelain and ceramic as well as different kinds of tapes and approaches to the face tape method.

This technique can be a huge timesaver! The stained glass and unglazed porcelain artworks in the video were created by Bonnie Fitzgerald. The beautiful WitsEnd Mosaic logo made with Nova high fire ceramic, created by Kim Wozniak

Here we refer to this as an indirect method. There are other indirect methods and videos on the channel detail those: Mesh Method and Reverse on Brown Paper.

Kinds of Tape Discussed: Ceramic Face Tape, Packing Tape, “Contact Paper”, “Frosty Contact Paper”

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Видео Indirect Face Tape Mosaic Method канала Bonnie Fitzgerald & Kim Wozniak