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Tidying Up: How to Clean Up Different Tile Types

Architectural Ceramics

Machine-made ceramic tile from AC’s Neri Collection , available in small-scale field tile and mosaic sizes. Handmade ceramics are often hand-painted. your handmade ceramic tile has a crackle finish, clean it the same way you would a hand-painted tile. Doing so could discolor the tile or the porous cement grout around it.

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Avente Tile Talk: Persian Tile: A Form of Art and Religious Expression

Tile Talk

Moraq tiles (mosaic style) panels created with this technique were made to withstand the elements of time. The dome of this religious building, which originates from the 17th century, serves as a wonderful example for mosaic tile, as well as cuerda seca tiles. cement tile. cement tile plans. hand painted tile.

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Avente Tile Talk: Interview with Nutmeg Designs

Tile Talk

This spring I was touched by the kindness of a simple gesture that few of us do in this electronic age, Margaret wrote a note thanking me for my support - on the cover was a joyful expression of her stain glass mosaics. How and when did you start creating the mosaic glass art masterpieces? Quilt blocks were my first inspiration.

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Avente Tile Talk: Thanks to the Tile Heritage Foundation

Tile Talk

Tile and our Collective History One of the reasons I started Avente was my love of tile - both in the beauty of the hand painted design and the sense of place and time it conveys. A mosaic brings you back to the Roman Empire. They want to help document, record and preserve the collective history that is ours. cement tile.

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