Loose Glass Mosaic Tile

Mosaic Art Supply sells several lines of glass mosaic tile in loose form for use in mosaic artwork:

• Elementile Tiny Recycled Glass Mosaic Tile
• Elementile Tiny IRIDESCENT Recycled Glass Mosaic Tile
• 3/4 Inch Vitreous Glass Mosaic Tile by Hakatai®
• 3/8 Inch Mini Vitreous Glass Mosaic Tile by Hakatai®
• Glass Mosaic Tile Assortments
• Glass Mosaic Tile Mini Metallics Hakatai
• Aventurine Metallic Glass Mosaic Tiles
• Smalti Handmade Mosaic Glass
• American-Made Stained Glass for Mosaic Tile

Loose tile can easily be had by soaking paper-mounted sheets in water overnight. Unlike mesh, paper comes off easily.

Mosaic Art Supply sells several lines of glass mosaic tile that comes mounted face-down on easy-to-remove soakable paper:

• 3/4 Inch Vitreous Glass Mosaic Tile by Kaleidoscope®
• 3/8 Inch Mini Vitreous Glass Mosaic Tile by Kaleidoscope®
• Aura Metallic Glass Mosaic Tile
• C3 Recycled Glass Mosaic Tile

You have probably noticed that most brands of glass mosaic tile at other suppliers come mounted on mesh sheets. The mesh sheets allow the entire sheet to be rapidly installed in ordinary tiling jobs.

To use individual tiles or pieces of tiles, it is generally necessary to remove the mesh.

However, mesh can be extremely difficult if not impossible to remove due to advances in baked-on adhesives.

The solution requires thinking outside the box:

Consider cutting the mesh up with a pair of shop scissors and use individual tiles that still have some mesh attached to the bottom.

Remember, the mesh was made to be glued down with the tile anyway. There isn't any real reason it has to be removed other than ease of working.