ANCIENT ROMAN MOSAIC; THE SOLOMON'S KNOT

We have find out about the Romans and how they used to live. They lived in houses called VILLAS. 

The floors and walls of these Villas were decorated in elaborate MOSAICS

MOSAICS showed everything from scenes of everyday life, to fantastic images from Roman and Greek MYTHOLOGY.

Many Romans believed that more colourful  MOSAICS would show people how wealthy they were!

We have chosen this mosaic called the Solomon's knot, as you can see it consits of  two close loops. It was a typical ancient roman mosaic. This one was found in Aquileia (Italy).

To make our mosaics first we chose the colours of the papers we were going to use. Then we used our rulers to draw the tiles, that was hard work because we have to make 1cm squares. After that we cut the tiles out and glue them on Solomon's knot and here you can see some of our designs.