My Unique, One of a Kind, Handmade, Mosaic Belt Buckles

So.. apart from remaking my mosaic table (see earlier post)

visiting mosaics around the place

and enjoying photographing other peoples mosaics.

I also make mosaic belt buckles out of Antique Bone China plates.

I hunt around in Antique markets and usually find a plate which has lost its cup and is looking for a new home and a new life.  It’s like a ‘make over’ for Antique China Plates

So many old plates have been sitting in the back of a cupboard collecting dust so I turn them into a little piece of wearable art.

The ‘Old Country Roses’ plate is one of my favourites. I actually have a set at home.. but it does make the most wonderful Mosaic Belt Buckle!

This is it’s cousin ‘Moonlight Roses’

It makes a great buckle too.

The advantage with using the Bone China to make my Mosaic Belt Buckles is that it has such a beautiful lustre. Quality China makes quality pieces. It’s as simple as that.

When we were living in Canada I found an Antique Store which had heaps of plates from the Estate of an Old Lady who had covered her walls in them. Friends would bring her plates to hang if they had broken the cup. They said if you’d stacked them on top of each other they would’ve been as tall as the Calgary Tower, which is 191 metres (626 feet) tall! That’s a lot of plates! For me it was like walking into Disneyland…

There were some funky Art Deco plates which made some amazing Mosaic Belt Buckles.

I might make one or two buckles from a plate depending where the pattern is on the plate and how useable it is. Interestingly the most beautiful plate doesn’t always make the most beautiful buckle and conversely a ‘less beautiful’ plate can make an amazing buckle.

These buckles were all made from the same plate.

I just used different parts of the plate to create three completely different mosaic belt buckles.

I love making my One-of-a-kind mosaic belt buckles. I also really enjoy the relationship I have with the people who buy my mosaic belt buckles. They often come back to visit, wearing their buckle and tell me the places they have been to with their buckle.

I get to create my buckles and then send them out into the world. They have been bought and sent to Canada, the U.S, England and Australia so far.

There are four types of mosaic belt buckles..

Burlesque .. is big and bold

Arabesque .. is smaller and more refined

Statuesque … has a squarer edge and is often fairly contemporary

and Romanesque .. is my favourite. She is modern and not afraid to be noticed.

If you have one of my buckles. Let me know. I’d love to know where it’s been.

If you are interested in buying one of my mosaic belt buckles they are available at brokenplatemosaics.bigcartel.com or check out my website at

www.brokenplatemosaics.com.au