{"id":530,"date":"2008-07-22T02:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/mosaic-inspiration-from-the-thomas-jefferson-building\/"},"modified":"2016-08-30T07:44:40","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T14:44:40","slug":"mosaic-inspiration-from-the-thomas-jefferson-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/mosaic-inspiration-from-the-thomas-jefferson-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Mosaic Inspiration from the Thomas Jefferson Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress is a monument to knowledge. The whole building exudes the value of knowledge. As well, it is a gorgeous building, with every surface covered in some kind of artwork celebrating knowledge, books or libraries. I took dozens of pictures of floors, some of which I may drag out later for your enjoyment. Here are a few to inspired you to greater borders and medallions for your quilts.<a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SIVPd178-JI\/AAAAAAAABws\/DClGxkk0nEo\/s1600-h\/PICT0828.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SIVPd178-JI\/AAAAAAAABws\/DClGxkk0nEo\/s320\/PICT0828.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225670316746668178\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SIVPeQDy11I\/AAAAAAAABw0\/8Fel_TM0bAc\/s1600-h\/PICT0881.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SIVPeQDy11I\/AAAAAAAABw0\/8Fel_TM0bAc\/s320\/PICT0881.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225670323758880594\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SIVPehGcudI\/AAAAAAAABw8\/6vA5-aLWnTY\/s1600-h\/PICT0841.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SIVPehGcudI\/AAAAAAAABw8\/6vA5-aLWnTY\/s320\/PICT0841.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225670328333416914\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SIVPe8ERijI\/AAAAAAAABxE\/UbCnxUNBSaI\/s1600-h\/PICT0854.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SIVPe8ERijI\/AAAAAAAABxE\/UbCnxUNBSaI\/s320\/PICT0854.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225670335572052530\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SIVPfF_1mMI\/AAAAAAAABxM\/G18R2Bq1JmE\/s1600-h\/PICT0862.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IlKX5cJn1Zk\/SIVPfF_1mMI\/AAAAAAAABxM\/G18R2Bq1JmE\/s320\/PICT0862.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225670338237798594\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I love the common designs that mosaic art (and other arts) have in common with quiltmaking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress is a monument to knowledge. The whole building exudes the value of knowledge. As well, it is a gorgeous building, with every surface covered in some kind of artwork celebrating knowledge, books or libraries. I took dozens of pictures of floors, some of which I may &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/mosaic-inspiration-from-the-thomas-jefferson-building\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mosaic Inspiration from the Thomas Jefferson Building&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[388],"tags":[319,325],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-388","tag-inspiration","tag-mosaics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}