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Another geometrical shot, some may say it echoes my way of organizing things, some may say it echoes my interest for the technical aspect of everything... I personally just love the balance between the rigid geometry and the randomness of the grain.
Toynbee tile in Toronto, by House of Hades, 2022-07-21 and 2022-09-09. Will have to wait a little longer for the full reveal.
Several sheets of these tiles came into our possession. Really beautiful. We don't have a plan to use them . . . yet.
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Tileable Grungy Teal Patterns - Photoshop (.pat) version also available here: webtreats.mysitemyway.com/grungy-teal-tileable-patterns/A
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.
I don't think many of the modern tile outlets can compete with this old tile factory.
The office range of the grade II listed Victorian tile works belonging to Minton Hollins Limited (Mintons tiles) dating back to 1869, once occupying seven acres devoted to the production of encaustic tiles beside Shelton Old Road in Stoke-on-Trent.
The site was saved from demolition and was purchased by Caudwell Communications (of which Phones 4u was incorporated) in 1990, and is now used as offices for various companies.
Please see the link for more details, especially of the tile details around the windows on the far side of the entrance: www.thepotteries.org/tour/096.htm
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.
Tile work is very common in Portugal. Most commonly a blue design on white tile, but can also be in other colors.
Ordered tile has arrived. Ready to get started cutting and applying over 100 tiles. Cutting every single one!
Tiling, Rüstem Paşa Camii. Istanbul, Turkey.
Plaza España, Managua, Nicaragua.
These 1970s tiles are part of the stairs going up to a supermarket on Plaza España in Managua, Nicaragua. For more photos from this place, constructed just before the devastating earthquake of 1972 and largely intact from it, please see my plaza españa set.
Tile wall of restaurant "Lendav Taldrik" / "Flying Saucer" at Telliskivi Creative Campus.
Artist: Hopare (France)
Three tiles from Marsden. George Marsden patented a technique for incorporating coloured slip into the front of a tile as it was pressed, and these are good examples of this work, with some subsequent hand embellishing. A year or two either side of 1900.
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/
A series of press-moulded decorative tiles were designed by Harold Stabler and manufactured by Poole Pottery to adorn the walls of several stations built or refurbished as part of the New Works Programme in the 1930s.
Tiles were produced for Aldgate East, Bethnal Green, St John's Wood, St Paul's and Swiss Cottage. There are a total of eighteen different tile designs, but only Swiss Cottage has examples of the whole set. Four examples from Swiss Cottage are depicted here.