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Close up of the toynbee tile (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toynbee_tiles) found in rivadavia & parana, Buenos Aires
Accession #: M.2002.1.266a-b
Location: LACMA
Team: artifacts
Greater Iran, Samarqand
Tiles, circa 1385
Ceramic; Architectural element, Earthenware, molded and glaze-painted, 5 3/4 x 9 3/16 in. (14.6 x 23.33 cm)
The Madina Collection of Islamic Art, gift of Camilla Chandler Frost (M.2002.1.266a-b)
Black granite tile hearth and fireplace facing. Bracing holds upper tiles in place until cement sets. Or is it grout? Anyway cement and grout drying completely. Wow, the shiny black granite with a slightly larger hearth (more proportionate I think), the fireplace is looking good. It is a small shallow homemade fireplace 24 inches wide at rear of firebox. In the past, it burned firewood, more recently a basic old natural gas log set. From now on, it will have LED wax battery-operated candles
White 3x6 subway tile is in the shower/tub. We had 400 green spacers, thinking that would be enough. We were wrong.
Traditional blue tile patterns in Iran.
If you would like to use this image, please credit the creator as follows:
'Blue tile patterns' by Atefeh Aghaee is released under CC0
and link to both this location and the relevant license.
The Athangudi tiles are popular handmade decorative floor tiles, originating from the Chettinadu region of Tamil Nadu. Athangudi tiles are traditionally designed and completely handmade, which add charm to the interiors of a house. These flower tiles of Athangudi stands out for its class, bringing forth the rich cultural heritage of the Karaikudi. The raw materials used for making athangudi tiles are the local soil, cement, baby jelly and synthetic oxides.
Sand will be finely sieved and used as base material for the tile. colour oxide mixes were poured over a glass fitted with a tile mould.
the worker made the design by hand or sometimes uses moulds. over the colour dye, cement and sands were sprinkled and later pressed with a layer of cement and kept under sun to dry. The dried tiles are transferred to a water tank for curing.
after the process is over the tile is taken out of water bath and the front glass will be removed to get beautiful handmade tile, ready to use in floorings.
This image would make a decent bathroom tile. A simple trigonometric equation spreads kaleidoscopically across the plane.
They use some fancy glass for the exterior of the building that gives pristine reflections. Made a nice grid pattern. Did some work in Photoshop, namely perspective correction and increased saturation.
Canon EOS Rebel XT
Sigma 18-50mm f/3.5-5.6 (@ 50mm)
1/320 sec. at f/16
By Sherrie Thai of ShaireProductions. Feel free to download and use these as a background for commercial or noncommercial projects. If you decide to use them, please let me know how it goes by sending a link or an image. Enjoy!
Some lovely tones in the glazes.
This is in the doorway to our beloved Dr. Wang in Dublin, acupuncturist and chinese herbalist. Something nice about him working away in this old Dublin building on Dame Street.
Drain tiling is the placement of polyethylene (a type of plastic) tubing below the surface of the ground for the purpose of draining excess water from the surface or subsurface of an agricultural field (in this instance).
For the agricultural producer, some of the intended benefits are: more area to crop (less water-covered), earlier into the field to plant (dries out quicker), don't have to drive around potholes when running equipment (more economical, saves fuel and overlap), better yields with less crops "drowning out", and tiling can be a tool to minimize crop losses due to increased salinity (high amount of "salts" in the soils due to other farming practices and high water tables). These benefits are not always guaranteed.
What about the unintended consequences that are (in many times) passed on to neighbors, other parts of the country, or won't take place until the future?
Some of these effects are: Loss of some nutrient and chemical filtration (these waters trickle through only a little soil before they are in the pipe and drained into a large lake or river), loss of wildlife habitat, loss of groundwater recharge for aquifers and those that get their water from wells, and potential contribution to increased flooding and pollution of neighbor's lands and/or rivers during spring flood season or after large rain events.
Normally, these waters would slowly seep down into the ground to recharge aquifers or would evaporate into the air. When drained, these waters reach streams or rivers in a matter of hours or days, increasing the flow of the river. Because these waters also have less filtration through the soil, they are direct routes for extra soil nutrients such as nitrates to get into rivers and lakes that serve as water supplies for towns and cities downstream.
"The traditional way to get rich is to transfer your costs to someone else." --whether to your neighbor, the taxpayer, or the generations that follow your own.
-from the article "Plowed Under"
prospect.org/article/plowed-under
Photo Credit: Krista Lundgren/USFWS
13 metres porcelain tiled kitchen on uneven floor - 100kg adhesive! - custom mix matching grout biscuit / ivory
St Oswald, Ashbourne, Derbyshire.
Minton Tiles.
The pavement of the chancel and tower is of tiles reproduced by the Minton Campbell Company of Stoke-on-Trent from designs found in ancient tiles discovered during the restoration work in 1881.
St Oswald, Ashbourne, Derbyshire.
Mainly Early English from circa 1220 but a few remnants of earlier Norman work survive.
Grade l listed.
pretty tile from the bathroom at the hipster coffee shop, Ritual, where Heidi said the coffee was made by pretty boys
In ChiloƩ Island, Chile, traditional houses are entirely covered in wood tiles, measuring aroung 60x10 cm each (aprox. 24x4"). Originally all tiles were straight, but each owner tried to make his home unique by cutting the tiles in different shapes. Different styles emerged, and when shapes alone were not enough, owners started to combine, arrange and paint to create unique styles. The result is a immense variety of wood tiling.
In this collection I tried to show a selection of wood tilings, and I also tried to create a coding for identifying unique tiles and arrangements.
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