Episode 3 - Hold in Pattern, Basket Weave Tiles, Periodic Tessellation, Killdeer, Opus Figlinum, A Wrinkle in Time, Sir Roger Penrose’s Kites and Darts and Aperiodic Tessellation.

Basket Weave Tiles

Opus Figlinum (page 14)

Periodic Tessellation

Killdeer

Mosaic Conservation at Chedworth Roman Villa (page 235)

A Wrinkle in Time

Sir Roger Penrose’s Kites and Darts and Aperiodic Tessellation

Additional Mosaic Resources:

Il Libro dell'Arte (The Craftsman's Handbook) by Cennino Cennini (c. 1400): An historical source explaining how Renaissance workshops used cartoons, sinopia pigments, and transferred drawings to walls.

For The Rules of Classical Andamento, there are Published resources from the Scuola Mosaicisti del Friuli in Spilimbergo, Italy (the world's premier mosaic school founded in 1922).

Mosaics: History and Technique by Peter Fischer: A textbook detailing the transition from the preparatory cartoon to the final placement of the tesserae.

Everydaa Radio E30610 - 2026-06-10, 4.44 PM
Julian Pivato