Perdomo Piastrine

Smalti by the Perdomo family of Cuernavaca, Mexico.

Created using the traditional methods of Murano, but with local ingredients and minerals to create a unique product.

The glass is poured into 'tortillas' and hand-cut vertically with a hammer and hardie to produce tesserae that are called piastrine in classic Italian mosaics.

As it is thinner than Italian smalti and easier to work with, and also offers a special advantage of having both a 'right' face and a 'wrong' base side that display subtle variations. This means that by flipping a piece over you gain even more colours and finishes.

Additionally, as each piece has a greater surface area, there is a wonderful range of tonal marbling within a single colour shade. However, this also means that there are greater batch differences per colour, therefore, please buy enough of a colour at one time to complete a project.

Cut using wheeled nippers.

*tile size: +/-18×18mm (2/3 inch)

*tile thickness: +/-6mm (1/4 inch)

*50g (2oz) = +/-20 pieces