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Medieval Flooring & Encaustic Tile

Architectural Ceramics

The image above shows the intricate detail that was put into floor mosaics. Patterns ranged from geometric designs, decorative mosaics, family crests, and depictions of Christian scenes and symbols. Our knowledge of floors in medieval domestic buildings is primarily from excavated buildings or documents from the time.

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Tidying Up: How to Clean Up Different Tile Types

Architectural Ceramics

Ceramic tile has a colorful history because of its global contributors, like delicate Delft blue and white tile from the Netherlands or bright and geometric tile from Morocco. Machine-made ceramic tile from AC’s Neri Collection , available in small-scale field tile and mosaic sizes. Natural Stone.

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Innovations drive interest in cork, bamboo

Floor Covering News

From their well-documented environmentally friendly benefits to their unique visual characteristics, cork and bamboo flooring provide a desirable alternative to many of the commodity-driven hard surface products in abundance in the industry today. Cork stoppers are used in the pattern, and the collection is available in four popular colors.

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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?

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Great Ideas for Recycled & Sustainable Wall Coverings

Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

Reclaimed wood can add some interesting texture and color to a wall. Also, reclaimed wood can come in a wide array of colors and textures. And putting those textures and colors together in one space can make an excellent rustic accent wall. Helgason/Shutterstock. Reclaimed wood. You can search a supplier directory here.

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Janet Bennett: A Life in Design

Making Tile Modern

Bennett is a striking and elegant woman who looks quite at home in the colorful surroundings of Robert , the restaurant housed within the Museum of Arts and Design in Manhattan. ” “I started with blue on one side, then green, then into earth colors, then, Janet Bennett. “Are you the artist Janet Bennett?”

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Avente Tile Talk: Thanks to the Tile Heritage Foundation

Tile Talk

A mosaic brings you back to the Roman Empire. His goal was to preserve these amazing tile tapestries of pattern and color found in Cuban tile. They want to help document, record and preserve the collective history that is ours. Margaret Almon Mosaics. Across the Color Spectrum: Painting by Lauralee Klindt.

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