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Anyone who has visited southern or south-eastern Europe is likely to have walked across a stone mosaic pavement at some point on their travels. Embellished with swirls and geometric designs in contrasting light and dark stone, pebble mosaics were used in flooring and often in more decorative spaces such as courtyards. Archaeologists have excavated examples dating from the 7th- and 8th-centuries BC in central Turkey, but even if you’ve toured the Alhambra and wandered around the streets of Granada in Spain, your feet will most certainly have passed over decorative pebble mosaics at some point.
The Lune Valley in Lancashire is a long way from such sunny climes, but this is where Maggy Howarth established her eponymous business, which