When Eliza Silva hears the words mosaic tile, she doesn’t picture the usual suspects (a Hilton Garden Inn bathroom, a McMansion kitchen’s beige-brown backsplash). Instead, she thinks about Rome.

Blending art, architecture and design, mosaic tile is one of the oldest forms of wall and floor covering. Using the tiny squares known as tesserae, Ancient Greeks and Romans created detailed ...

Oceanside creates a wide range of handmade mosaic glass tiles. They recycle 900,000 kilos of old bottles each year to create their tiles. During the process, the glass is heated up to 1600°C.