tiles

1m20 x 1m20 : more or less, plus ou moins, mas o menos

at the entrance of the Mosque of Paris

When I discovered how much fun it was to paint pebbles a while back I had an idea that it might be fun to use these acrylic pens on other items such as tiles. We discovered we had some spare tiles in the shed left over from when we had the kitchen and bathrooms redone, and JJ and I decorated some of them. I wonder if you can recognise our styles and work out which ones JJ did! He painted 4 - I did the rest.

I gave one to Matt and Sophie for their anniversary and am going to give my sister one when I see her as it's her anniversary in September! We've recently tidied up our lean-to and JJ had the idea it would be nice to have a line up along the wall that the kitchen window looks out at! A lot of the year we have washing up here but in the summer it's much clearer and we can enjoy looking out at them!

The first photo shows them in the garden after I sprayed them with protective spray and the second pic shows them up on the wall, using Command strips.

Crumbling tiles E 68th St station

There are 49 tiles in the collage. I took these pictures of the tiles on different buildings in Lisboa and Porto. This was quite a project I must confess.....

Wonderful tiles on a building in Bayeux, France.

Black paint peels off to reveal some old tiles.

Horn Lane, Acton.

Mi Rancito restaurant. Utah County, Utah.

Tiles at the Jackfield Tile Museum, Ironbridge Gorge, Shropshire, UK.

These were a recent Ebay purchase -- I think I bought all four tiles for $10 + shipping. I need to clean them up and would like to mount them and hang them on a wall somewhere. Too many projects, too little time.

I found these two headstones interesting as it's not often I see tile work incorporated into the memorials.

Bathroom Tile Patterns from November 2016

...taken for a weekly challenge where the word was "repetition"

These are tiles on the roof of the Sydney Opera House...

Designed and folded by Francesco Mancini

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Tiles reflecting super saturated light at the Finch West subway station.

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A tile job showing where an old J.C. Penney location was in Andalusia, AL.

Using skills and rules from Islamic Art Tiles

This is the first block I've made of a 9 block quilt from the new book Tile Quilt Revival. It's hand appliqued, needle turn technique. Fun to do and I'm loving the results!

Australiana: decorative tiling close up.

Not sure what the small mammal is peeking out next to the gum flower, maybe a pygmy possum? Or some kind of mouse?

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And six years on, it isn't only the tiles that have gone. This entire building has been reduced to waist level (or maybe shoulder level, depending on one's height), so that only a truncated brick wall now remains.

This site is on is on the north side of Cumberland Road in Bristol, where it runs parallel with the River Avon - behind me when I took the photograph - as it negotiates the New Cut. Cumberland Road is on my preferred route by car into the city from the west, so I have had plenty of opportunity over the years to see this structure's gradual decline, and to speculate about what will replace it. Ideally I would like to do a little research into the building's original purpose but, as is usual for me, time and inclination are in short supply.

Sunday 25th March 2012.

Here's a roughly equivalent view of the site with Google Maps Street View today (17th September 2018).

I have decided to begin sharing photos of Bristol from my archive again, such as this one. I recognise that these photos have limited general appeal, and I only expect Bristolians or Bristol enthusiasts to be interested in them. Having said that, any feedback I do receive is of course greatly appreciated, as always.

Fujichrome Velvia 100F

Nikon FM2

Nikkor 50mm lens

Epson V600 scanner

Film developed in a commercial laboratory.

Dill and I went to visit Holli in her new flat today. I really love the tiles in the entrance hall.

Tiles on the patio leading to the entrance of Homer Babbidge Library on the campus of UConn in Storrs, CT.

Tiled Mosque Inside - İçerden Çinili Camii

Murat Reis, Üsküdar District, Istanbul, TR

SUGRAPHIC ~ Always Under The Light of Your Love ...

Sanatın Ustaları ~ Masters of Art ~ One 1stanbul Photo Album - Candidate Photos

ISTANBUL 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics for Peace on Earth..

DÜNYADA BARIŞ için ISTANBUL 2024 Yaz Olimpiyatları ve Paralimpiksleri..!

Roof tiles in the southern Portuguese village of Castro Marim. The semi-tubular shapes of the terra cotta tiles are redolent of Southern Europe and the Mediterranean. Portuguese tiles have their own distinctive shape, but what interested me here was the conflict between the two roofs, which slope at right angles to one another. The roofs are in fact being viewed from a high angle, from the battlements of Castro Marim castle.

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WEEK 39 – “Stateline Square” Former Super Kmart

Yep, it may actually be possible that Bargain Hunt made this place worse when it moved in!! Not dissing the store – but it ain't pretty, by any means. At least Kmart left the tile here when it moved out. That in all probability went bad over the years (oh, by the way: Burlington and garden center tenant Home Décor Liquidators have been here for a long time, but Bargain Hunt only moved in recently), so I don't blame Bargain Hunt for tossing it – just for not doing anything to even cover it up after the fact.

(c) 2015 Retail Retell

These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)

Getting ready to teach a Renaissance Tan tile class.

Carter, working in Poole, were the driving force in tile design in the 1950's to 1970's in the UK, these are dated 1956(?) and 1966. Not to be reproduced without permission.

Cinderella's Castle? Nope, found this in a Daltile store while shopping for kitchen tile.