Orsoni_smalti

Smalti colour cards

Commitment to smalti! Great prices for everybody. VIVAmosaics.com aim to be YOUR UK partner in everything that has got do with Orsoni’s products be it translucent smalti, regular smalti, gold leaf smalti or roti (off cuts from the smalti production). Please see below for the full factory range.
The minimum amount you can order is 100g, if you want 1 kg you just order 10 x 100g. You are not charged extra for the small amounts.
Sorry that prices had to go up, they haven’t gone up for years. However, gold stays the same and VIVA still has by far the best Orsoni prices. New price structure for large orders:

Smalti from Orsoni is the most wonderful, vibrantly coloured top quality product for making mosaics. It is mosaic artist’s absolute favorite for it’s unique beauty; hand made in Venice using recipes and techniques unchanged since the 5th Century where smalti was used in the famous church mosaics of Ravenna, the world’s capital of mosaics. Smalti means ‘melt’ and is made when pigmented glass is melted in a cauldron. The hot glass mass is poured onto a metal plate and pressed out to resemble a pizza. When cooled, this material is cut by hand into briquettes, all individual in exact size and shape due to the nature of the glass and the by hand manufacturing. The off cuts from this production is sold as roti, which means literally ‘broken’. The roti will still have the excellent depth in colour as smalti is renowned and the irregular shapes are very interesting to work with.
The smalti tesserae are richly coloured, and the factory produces a huge range of different colours. Any shiny rippled side, usually with tiny little air pockets trapped in the glass, is the ‘up’ side in your mosaic. Due to the production methods, smalti is exclusive and rather expensive and can be used to great effect solely or in combination with other material.
The colour card about shows the full standard range.

Orsoni Sample Card
2 boxes holding a full set of 14 sample cards as seen above. Smalti on rigid carton.
£32.99

Commitment to smalti

Smalti orders of £200-£400, 10% discount & free delivery
Smalti orders of £400-£800, 15% discount & free delivery
Smalti orders of £800 or more, 20% discount & free delivery

Please place your regular order via Paypal and your large smalti order via email on sales@VIVAmosaics.com.
Do allow plenty of time for large orders to be delivered in full. Payment in advance by cheque.

For full colour cards please scroll down!

Free UK mainland shipping on orders of £80 or more!
No VAT is charged.
NB! VIVA is in the midst of moving premisses and it may well be sometime in the week starting with April 28 before orders can be dispatched again. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause but looking forward to be serving you again!