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How Mosaics Work

$29.95Price

Version 7 is available to download. The included browser reader opens from the downloaded files. Hosted online reader access is not yet available.

Updated editions: Please use an email address you check at checkout. If revised editions are made available to existing buyers, I intend to send them manually using that address. Your original download does not refresh automatically. Future access arrangements are still being finalized. To use a different email address, contact info@roguemosaics.com with your order number.


How Mosaics Work examines what makes a mosaic work as an image. It looks at how pieces, relationships, value, direction, light, scale and viewing distance affect what we see.

Rather than teaching step-by-step technique, the book asks why an image works from one distance and falls apart from another, why small changes can alter the whole and why the finished mosaic may behave differently from what its maker expected.

Current digital edition: Version 7 (November 5, 2026). $29.95 USD.

This purchase includes Version 7 of the illustrated book: 25 chapters and 8 appendices in a downloadable ZIP containing the PDF (231 pages), EPUB, and offline browser reader. Extract the entire ZIP before opening Browser_Reader/index.html, and keep its files together. No physical copy will be shipped.

The book remains a living project. Later editions may revise claims, examples and illustrations as the evidence changes. I intend one purchase to carry forward to later versions I release; arrangements for that access are still being finalized.

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