Glass Mosaic Tile Series - Part 1 - Why Glass Mosaic is a Great Building Material For Architects, In

History

Mosaic history can be traced back to 2000 BC in ancient China. And the glass mosaic is becoming popular in architecture during the period from Rinascimento (Renaissance). Glass mosaics are extremely popular in Asia during the 1980s and becoming less in 1990. However, in the early 21st century, with new technology development, glass mosaic back strongly in Asia and is becoming increasingly popular in North America since 2004.

Merits of glass mosaic characteristics

of new production technologies seems that nothing is impossible in terms of colors, sizes, styles and materials used in glass mosaic. So great is the distinguishing characteristic of the choice of building materials. Also, glass mosaics have a very wide range of applications due to its impervious nature. Glass does not absorb water (technical materials as an expression of "zero absorption), so there is no shrinkage or expansion problems in this way can be used indoor and outdoor applications. a lot of material because the material can absorb water from the inside so it will have the expansion / contraction problem when temperature changes, when the rate of water absorption exceeds a certain level, it can not be used as an external material, for example, ceramic tiles, ANSI standard defines the rate of water absorption is less than 0.5%, which can be used as an external building products.

Big variety of applications

Glass mosaics can be used for various construction equipment such as both indoors and outdoors, for residential flooring (if the surface is polished, not recommended for application for slippery floors), walls, pillars and columns, artwork, furniture , baths, kitchens and swimming pools. Your imagination is the limit for applying for a building, so it attracts architects and interior designers attention, but DIYs can also be safely used glass mosaic to shine your remodeling project. Appropriate use of glass mosaic may refresh your eyes everyday after the glass mosaic tile installed.

With current production technology, glass mosaics can be adjusted on the basis of design, if you speak to a real manufacturer with updated technology and expertise. turnaround time to make a custom pattern can be incredible as less than 5 working days. Yes. 5 working days to make a pattern based on the size, color code or a real sample will be obtained from somewhere else is realistic that I can not imagine 5 years ago.

The materials used to make glass mosaics

Originally, glass mosaic type is vitreous glass mosaic, which is widely used to pool. But with the fast technology and workmanship developed over the last 5-10 years, glass mosaic developed on the main categories in the original vitreous glass mosaics, such as:

1 Crystal glass mosaic, which can be seen through so that it gets the name as "Crystal", but with the color of paint on the back of the mosaic makes thousands of colors are possible,

2 Iridescent glass mosaic, which are iridescent coating on the surface of glass mosaic glass mosaic to reflect different colors, which is great material for night club, casino and entertainment places, "beautiful;

3 Metallic glass mosaic, this is a very special material that does not paint the back of the mosaic, but the color is burned in a fusion of glass in extremely high ambient temperatures. When the glass fusion furnace and cooled, the color of the glass inside the paint as evenly distributed throughout the entire mosaic.

4 Van Gogh glass mosaic, which has passed through a similar manufacturing process as well as metallic glass mosaic. The difference is that metallic glass can be said to be evident, but the glass Van Gogh glass mosaic kindly give you the texture of oil paint its surface.

5 Stone glass mosaic. Stone mosaic of other types of large decorative building materials for over 2000 years of history. People are creatively mixing glass and natural stone to stone glass mosaic, which typically have high levels of luxury, but also very natural.

Given the high demand and competition among manufacturers, we believe innovation will take place rapidly and new types of glass mosaic could be created from time to time. We will closely monitor the technology and keep you posted, if interested, please make sure to check from time to time or our RSS article.