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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.
The Batchelder House is a historic Pasadena, CA home, designed and built in 1910 by Ernest A. Batchelder, a prominent leader of the Arts and Crafts Movement, and his wife, Alice Coleman, an accomplished musician. Batchelder's first craft shop was located in the structure, where decorative tiles were made for Greene and Greene, the Heineman Brothers, and other noted local architects of the era.
The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 14, 1978.
Ordered tile has arrived. Ready to get started cutting and applying over 100 tiles. Cutting every single one!
I found this and another bathroom photo on a real estate site and loved them so much I had to post them. It was a lovely Spanish house in L.A. (Silverlake), and the bathrooms were the best part. I admit, I don't think this particular pinkish lavender goes very well with this particular aqua, but the tiled arches are divine.
I found these two headstones interesting as it's not often I see tile work incorporated into the memorials.
Tile wall of restaurant "Lendav Taldrik" / "Flying Saucer" at Telliskivi Creative Campus.
Artist: Hopare (France)
Abstract tile water theme for the bath in the studio built several years ago.
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This is a bud from one of the rose bushes I removed and replaced with one called Firefighter.. Am anxious for the new one to bloom...
Advdertisement by Pilkington's Tile & Pottery Co. Ltd. of Clifton Junction, nr. Manchester in the British Standard Exporter 1919-1921.
part of the Artemis, Acrobats, Divas and Dancers by artist Nancy Spero
located at the Lincoln Center, 66th St. Subway Station
This is part of a tiled wall outside a huge block of flats in Rotherhithe, right next to the River Thames. The tiles play tricks on your eyes as they look like they are undulating, when in fast they are completely straight. I love the vibrant colours these provide.
Angled view of the tile mozaics decorating the vaulted roof and pillars at the Nasr ol Molk mosque at Shiraz.
Taken at Shiraz, Fars province, Iran. taken in April 2009.
Lisbon, Mar. 3, 2014.
After I shot this photo, I realized that I had shot a repetitive pattern of life, not just of tiles. On Mar. 7, I went back with a print an offered it to the gentleman, Carlos Pedrosa. I hope to see him there for a long time.
In the Convento de Cristo, Tomar. One of the 'easter eggs' of the convent - tiny treasures that you have to look for, and that aren't in the guidebook, but which for me provided some of the highlights of the day.
This company operated out of the Bridge Tile Works, Tunstall, from around 1897 to 1912, making a large number of tiles, especially moulded designs. Many of the designs were unremarkable, though the peacock feather bottom left corner was better and popular. Centre left is part of the 'Rosebud' series, after book illustrations by Randolph Caldecott, it is just possible a Corn Bros blank was decorated by another company.
The Corn family were involved in several different companies at the time in Stoke. Edward Corn bought a pottery works in 1837, he retired around 1850 and the company was run by his sons, William (d.1885) and Edward (d.1891). The sons of the younger Edward, Alfred Henry Corn (d.1916) and Edmund Richards Corn (d.1945) ran the business W&E Corn, which became Henry Richards in 1903. An R Corn, registered a tile design in 1898, giving an address of the Bridge Tile Works, Longport. This seems to have been Reginald Corn, who had worked with Alfred and Edmund but split away and used the Bridge Tile Works. Perhaps he established the company Corn Brothers (or there was an agreement with his brothers that he could use the name Corn Brothers while the others used W&E Corn). However, the story is still not 100% clear, the history of Richards Tiles says three companies in Stoke were using the name 'Corn' at the same time, which is why their name was switched to 'Henry Richards', and I don't know whether the family of William Corn (d.1885) worked in the industry.
If you are interested in this sort of thing, perhaps the Tiles & Architectural Ceramics Society is up your street - take a look at tilesoc.org.uk/tacs/
I love blue tile, and really tried to find an area of the yard where I could incorporate this look, it will happen someday!
The Sydney Opera House's sails are covered in 1,056,000 specially designed tiles of two varieties: ice and snow. The arrangements of the two tile types on chevrons are such that the sunlight reflects the sails variably based on their position, angle and timing. Two years of design work were poured into the tiles to ensure a perfect pattern such that the Sydney Opera House is consequently a living, breathing building, changing its appearance with time.