Koko Mosaico is a Ravenna mosaic studio and school creating artistic mosaics that range from ancient Byzantine reproductions to contemporary work. It sells ready-made pieces online and teaches traditional mosaic technique from its workshop at Via di Roma 136.
Best for Handmade Byzantine-style artistic mosaics and mosaic courses
Pixel Mosaici runs mosaic courses in Ravenna for children and adults, from beginners to advanced, working with individuals and groups. It sells handmade pieces and reproductions and takes custom commissions from its workshop at Via Sinistra Canale Molinetto 181.
Best for Mosaic courses and handmade mosaic pieces
Annafietta makes mosaics using the Byzantine musive technique, with glass-paste tesserae hand-cut one by one. Since 2000 the workshop, on Via Argentario near the Basilica di San Vitale, has also sold materials for do-it-yourself projects.
Best for Hand-cut Byzantine glass mosaics and DIY mosaic materials
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Ravenna’s mosaic workshops here sell finished pieces and also teach. Koko Mosaico makes copies of ancient mosaics as well as contemporary works to its own designs or to a client’s instructions, and runs courses from Via di Roma 136.S1S2Pixel Mosaici is in the countryside of the Ravenna comune, at Via Sinistra Canale Molinetto 181. It sells copies of ancient mosaics and reproductions of modern ones, and it runs courses too.S3
For a wall piece, bring the measurements of the wall and ask how the mosaic is mounted. For a commission, agree the design before the work begins, and ask when it will be ready.