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Artistic Tiles
Artistic tile, or artisan tile, comes in a variety of decorative techniques.
UNGLAZED:
The color range in unglazed tiles is limited to the natural colors of the clay, ranging from light sand to red brick.
PLAIN GLAZES:
White lead, flint, china stone, and china clay were ground to form a glaze. a clear glaze brings out the natural body color and might be applied over any colored decoration. glazed tiles are decorated with natural and artificial colors. palette of colors consists of glaze and underglaze colors. The first glazes were blue and were made from copper. also, turquoise and light green glaze were popular colors. Ground metal oxide could be added to give different colors.
ENCAUSTIC OR INLAID:
This method was to fill the matrix of a stamped tile with white pipe clay before it was glazed and fired. The two sections fuse during firing.
MOSAIC:
Artistic tiles in such colors as yellow, blue, brown, black, turquoise, green, and white were cut and carved into small pieces according to a previously prepared pattern, these pieces were placed close together and liquid plaster was poured over them to fill in all the openings and gaps. After the plaster dried and hardened, a large single-piece tile panel was created, which was then plastered onto the required wall of the building.
HAND PAINTING:
The artist painted freely onto a plain surface tile. The glaze was one centimeter thick, with hand-painted decorations of flowers, plants, geometric designs, birds, and human beings. A design could also be copied from an original sketch by ‘pouncing’. alternatively, a tile could be transfer printed and colored by hand.
CARVED AND MODELED TILES:
Each piece is individually carved in relief or modeled in clay, the pattern could be engraved in outline on the surface of the tile or the design carved in relief or counter-relief on a wood block which was then pressed into the artistic tile. sometimes painted to emphasize the three-dimensional appearance of the work.
SGRAFFITO
An early form of decoration, the tile body is covered with coats of slip that is scratched off to produce the design.
LUSTRE PAINTING
The metallic luster of glazed ceramics is a very special type of decoration. It can be red, brown, ochre yellow, or green in scattered light and shows, in specular reflection, colored metallic reflections (blue, yellow, orange, rose…). Metallic copper and silver colloids suspended in glazes compose luster decoration.
TUBE LINING:
Slip is trailed onto the surface of the tile to make raised lines separating the areas where different color is wanted. colored glazes were then applied. This technique was used for art nouveau tiles.
TRANSFER PRINTING:
A copper plate was engraved with a design, this would be covered in color, the excess removed leaving the color only in the engraved parts. A tissue paper was pressed onto the plate and placed color-side down onto the tile. Then removed, and the color transferred to the artistic tile. This method was quicker, and therefore cheaper than hand painting.
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Creating new glaze colors is chemistry – it is not like combining pigments to match a paint color. A color is arrived at after a long process of experimentation and approximation, where many different minerals may be used and swapped out if the desired outcome is not achieved.
Some chemical combinations are not as stable as others, and slight differences in temperature within the kiln, or of the gasses involved in the burning process may cause variations in outcome – in rare occasions, even across the face of a single tile with the same glaze! We try to search for tiles that vary excessively from target colors and manage any occasional difference between or within batches of fired tiles.
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