tesserae

• “The 64-year-old mosaicist fashions the tiny glass pieces known as tesserae into remarkable artworks.”

  The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed

• “(also called tesserae), and gluing them into place.”

  chicagotribune.com -

• “However, archaeological indicators for actual villas (such as tesserae, crustae, hypocaust tiles or window glass) were not retrieved.”

  Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Territorial Survey 2

• “A mosaic consists of bits that, taken alone, don't mean much: put those individual tesserae , or tiles, together, and you can have a work of art.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Euro-Zone Mosaic Isn't a Pretty Picture

• “But he did not hesitate, and when they reached her room — whose walls were a mosaic of sea creatures composed of mint green, white, and brown tesserae — he entered along with her and closed the door behind him.”

  Fictionaut: One Thousand Incarnations and One Thousand Deaths - Part I

• “I just noticed your blog has a subtitle "Tessera are the small pieces that make up a mosaic" which first rang a bell and immediately afterwards set off my grammar nazi alarm bell, as I remembered that 'tessera' is a singular and the plural would be 'tesserae'.”

  Sexual Abuse of Women in the Church

• “Drabkin also experimented with tesserae, creating a series of mosaic panels on biblical themes.”

  Stella Drabkin.

• “Lyrical and elegant a prose stylist as he was, he never compromised the rigorous precision of his observations; he saw clearly, and described vividly what he saw, from the movement of raindrops down a window ( "the window screen, like a sampler half-stitched, or a crossword puzzle invisibly solved, was inlaid erratically with minute, translucent tesserae of rain") to the effects of the '70s energy crisis on the lives of average Americans.”

  Newsweek: The Alchemist of the Mundane

• “As for the other colours of the floor locally quarried chert was used for the purple, yellow and coral red tesserae.”

  Stone Studies « Interactive Dig Sagalassos – City in the Clouds

• “Most remarkable was the use of fragments of an inscription as tesserae.”

  Stone Studies « Interactive Dig Sagalassos – City in the Clouds

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