The Vault is Slate’s history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. In an 1886 catalog, the Belcher ...

August 14, 2006 We’ve previously written about the advent of digital technology in creating design tools for wallpaper, drapes, and carpets, even fingernails, and the extraordinary results that can be ...

“The Empress” demands complete and undivided attention. Regal and serene, she stares confidently straight ahead. Her small, ruby red lips and dark eyes are a contrast against snow-white skin. She ...

Sherri Kruger-Kukowski creates mosaic art using stained glass and natural materials. For 30 years, Sherri Kruger-Kukowski has been creating mosaic art in her studio in Badger, MN. Her primary medium ...

For his new installation of mosaics in New York, the artist ventures below Times Square. An M.T.A. worker takes a photograph of the artist Nick Cave’s mosaics in a new passageway under construction ...

Chico >> Elizabeth Devereaux of Elizabeth Devereaux Architectural Glass has been creating works that will stand the test of time. Devereaux accidentally stumbled into glass work, but her love for ...

A Scottish artist's designs for a set of mosaics at Tottenham Court Road Tube Station in London are to be auctioned in Edinburgh. The mosaics, by the late Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, are described by ...

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You don’t have to be an artist to make stained glass. To become a stained-glass creator "you need to be able to wear safety glasses and a pair of gloves, and be able to glue," says Carol Blieka, who’s ...