Stone, slate and tile mosaics by Buffalo Trail Artworks.

All our design work and fabrication are done completely by the two of us in our studio and workshop. For our mosaics we use tile saws and bandsaws with diamond blades to cut each piece individually from stone, slates, and tiles. We don't use water jet systems or laser cutting, it's all hand done. All the different shades of color in the natural stones and slates give character to the piece making each one unique. Most of the brown colored stones and light colored quartzite we use are native Montana stones. Our mosaics are done in a 'pietra dura' style, which means it's a type of 'hard stone or hard rocks inlay'.

The photos from custom orders in our mosaics galleries contain artwork that were used as architectural art pieces in a variety of ways, such as flooring designs, inlays for table tops, indoor as well as outdoor wall decorations, shower stalls, hearth accents, fireplaces, back-splashes, signs and a host of other applications. Where ever you can place tile, slate or stone become possible locations to highlight with our mosaics.
Open up your imagination and allow us to create a personalized one-of-a-kind unique addtion to your home or business.

Stone mosaic shower by Jim and Holly Cutting

Stone mosaic moon and stars by Jim and Holly Cutting.

(walls)

(floors)

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How we make our table top mosaics step 2.

How we make our table top mosaics step 3.

Final steps for making mosaics for our table tops.

After the inlaid pieces have thoroughly dried, we grout the joints as you would tile flooring. The final step is a protective sealer on the stone mosaic.

In the recessed table top, we then adhere the mosaic pieces in place with a special 'thinset' leveling and spacing properly as we go.

We hand cut the stone mosaic pieces individually on tile saws and bandsaws, lay them out on the pattern we've made, making sure everything fits.

A base is prepared with special backer board making sure it's recessed the right depth to allow for the thickness of the stone.

HOW WE DO IT...

Stone mosaic with painted stone fish and fly by Jim and Holly Cutting

We are sorry to say we RETIRED from doing mosaics. We will be redoing the web site soon and remove this section and until then, enjoy our images.

Any questions, contact us at info@buffalotrailartworks.com or call 406-752-3361