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Tidying Up: How to Clean Up Different Tile Types

Architectural Ceramics

Check out the following tips below, organized into categories, to care for and maintain your porcelain, ceramic, glass or natural stone tile. Simply put, when it comes to porcelain tile, the care and maintenance required is almost none. Porcelain tile from AC’s Himalaya Collection , made to look like polished or matte marble.

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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

A mosaic brings you back to the Roman Empire. They want to help document, record and preserve the collective history that is ours. Artisan Porcelain Tiles for the Pool. Margaret Almon Mosaics. Architectural Ceramics: Tile+Mosaic. Chinese Fans made from Porcelain and Bamboo. These moments warm my heart.

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New Options on Green Squared and an Innovative Mortar That Sets in Hours

CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

The NSF certification process includes a comprehensive documentation review and onsite facility audit to verify conformance to the standard upon which the Green Squared certification program is based, ANSI A138.1 American National Standard Specifications for Sustainable Ceramic Tiles, Glass Tiles and Tile Installation Materials.

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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. Artisan Porcelain Tiles for the Pool. (Early 14th century).

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