Description
Bring your own china plates, mugs, etc. Develop the basic technique in cutting and crafting a mosaic with broken crockery on a board about 9″x9″, suitable for 8 years old and above. The history of Picassiette starts with Raymond Isidor a French graveyard worker in the city of Chartres – France, around 1900-1964. One day in 1938, he found some pieces of crockery that amused him and began a mosaic project that would continue for almost thirty years, decorating the interior and exterior of his house. Isidore gathered the materials he needed for his mosaics from garbage dumps, people began to call him “Picassiette,” a twist on pique-ssiette (scavenger) or ” plate pick”. Picasso visited his house “La Maison de Picassiette” in 1954. In 1981 the city of Chartres took ownership. Two years later, La Maison de Picassiette was honored with national Historical Monument status and remains open to the public as a museum.
Below is more advanced projects using the same technique with more acurate cut, grinding and using wet saw.
