Introduction

Not all mosaic patterns use square pieces. You can make an amazing mosaic pattern using other shapes.

This floor in a cottage in Ceredigion used long pebbles. The owner found the pebbles nearby and fitted them together carefully. The beautiful flowing pattern is not created with colour but by the direction of the pebbles. You can see:

• wide strips where all the pebbles point towards the end of the room
• a square in the doorway where the pebbles point the other way
• bands where the stones are diagonal to make a herring-bone pattern