tesserae

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

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed TOM HAWTHORN 2010

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

chicagotribune.com - 2009

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

Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Territorial Survey 2 2003

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.

Euro-Zone Mosaic Isn't a Pretty Picture Irwin Stelzer 2011

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.

One Thousand Incarnations and One Thousand Deaths - Part I 2010

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 TK 2010

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.

The Alchemist of the Mundane 2009

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 2009

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

Stone Studies « Interactive Dig Sagalassos – City in the Clouds 2009

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

Stella Drabkin. 2009