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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.
Roof tiles are made from fired clay and so come in a variety of colours - mostly shades of beige but you do also see red ones.
Some are even glazed blue to create a more striking roof style.
I rather like the crossed diagonals in this picture.
Canon 5D MkII with Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L IS USM lens and Canon EF 1.4x MK II Extender.
In Chiloé 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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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
Posted on PigPog: pigpog.com/2014/03/20/tiled-roof/
A bit of roof tiling in the mediterranean biome at the Eden Project.
This sort of visual gimmick wins every time (for me), and deserves to. I think this was at the front of the Bartell Theater. Correct me if I'm wrong there.
Tiles that make up some of the sidewalks in Barcelona. They were in fact light green, with little contrast, but I fixed that in Photoshop. Nice patterns!
A group of 3 inch tiles in striking geometric pattern and colours. Dated 1958.
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/
Charles Timmis ran a tile decorating company at the Sheaf Works, Longton, Stoke on Trent. Two tile designs were registered in 1889 and the company was mentioned in the Pottery Gazette in 1890. It seems likely that Charles Timmis went into partnership with Watkin and the jointly named company worked from the same address, registering three designs in 1890 and 1891. That is about all that is currently known. The top two tiles are examples of one of the 1889 designs, pattern number 22. This was probably in production for a couple of years at least, the transfer has been engraved a second time without a registration number, perhaps the three years protection had passed so there was no point including the number. The bottom left tile is the other 1889 design (I think there was a two tile panel in the same manner, the whole forming a fireplace check). Bottom right is one of the Timmis and Watkin designs from 1891, pattern number 51A.
One might surmise from this that they didn't make a whole load of designs, by the time you include border and plain tiles a pattern book of 51 designs is not a lot. The other interesting feature is the pattern number in a diamond which is rather unusual. Excluding Pilkington's, there are a number of transfer print and tint tiles of this type with diamond pattern numbers, ranging from 11 to 100. Lower numbers are on T&R Boote type ring blanks, higher number on an eight bar blank. Unfortunately, of the examples I can reference, only one has exactly the same six bar back.
The top right tile in this image is a Wooliscroft blank, I think.
Another high view across the Piazza della Rotonda. I like the shape of the tiles and the weeds growing amongst them. I'd hate to be a roofer around here.
Roma
April 2015
The Portuguese love their tiles. There are a million patterns. This was pretty much the first one I passed and took a photo of. After that, there were just too many to keep bothering.
The big square on this necklace is a bathroom tile! A customer of mine bought 6 beautiful tiles and ask me to make necklaces from them. This is one of them
One of six tile photos I'm posting. All taken at the Hearst Castle.
I am posting all of them at the same time. I've been wanting to post them to my Pinterest tile board, but wanted them to link back here, so everyone viewing knows their origin and photographer.
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A rather battered shop front in Nottinghamshire
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/
H&R Johnson blanks, outer tiles 1970, central tile 1980's? Kenneth Clark and his wife Ann (nee Wynn-Reeves) were giants of tile design in the 1960's onwards, developing a range of innovative techniques and super designs.
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/
37 tiles make up the coloured star in the middle. This is one of the "classic" patterns of 37 objects.
Tenuous link: Star of David pattern