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Tidying Up: How to Clean Up Different Tile Types

Architectural Ceramics

While we can’t help you clean out your closet by purging, thanking, or folding your clothes, Architectural Ceramics can help you clean your tile floor or backsplash. Cleaning a porcelain tile floor like our Himalaya Collection , shown above, takes nothing more than a little routine vacuuming or a quick wipe with a damp towel.

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Avente Tile Talk: Moroccan Tile: In a Class of Its Own

Tile Talk

they introduced various forms of art and artistic techniques, including a unique custom of painted ceramics, called Zillij. With the guidance of their mentors, the pupils would learn the essential, but laborious, task of baking clay, meticulously hand-cutting each piece, and then painting the pieces with painstaking accuracy.

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Avente Tile Talk: Cement Tiles Add to the Impeccable Details of.

Tile Talk

Sally mentioned she had this painting that would be the focal point of the main dining room and the tile pattern and colors should draw you to the painting; but, not take your attention away. The painting, El Morocco , is by Jerome Carlin and depicts a well-healed family having dinner in a nice restaurant. floor tile.

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Cement Tiles Inspired by World Travels

Granada Tile

Gracing the walls and floors of wealthy homes to extravagant palaces and temples alike, tile has become cemented in our culture as one of the most integral and impactful elements of our world’s stylistic influences. Zellige tiles are very traditional to this region and are made up of colorful mosaics. Moroccan Tile. Spanish Tile.

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Avente Tile Talk: Portuguese Ceramic Tile: Architectural History and.

Tile Talk

Brought to Portugal in the 1400s from Morocco and Algeria, the ceramic tiles are not only beautiful to look at, but also serve as a functional need in reflecting sunlight, trapping cold air, and keeping houses cool during the hot Portuguese summers. floor tile. hand painted tile. Margaret Almon Mosaics. at 6:00 AM.

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Avente Tile Talk: Islamic Star Patterns in Tile Design

Tile Talk

These tiles were commonly used as floor and wall applications and to decorate mihrabs , the architectural niches in mosques. Examples of this work still exist in Spain, Italy, Morocco, India, and Turkey. These star polygons were not limited only to the painted figure. It is the mosaics of the 15th century C.E. floor tile.

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Avente Tile Talk: Fall in Love with a Classic - Casablanca Cement Tile

Tile Talk

Project Pick: Moroccan Inspired Cement Tile Floor. Zellij is the art of hand-cut geometric mosaic design. Image credit: Morocco Travel Blog. The zellij tile shown here has cobalt blue, emerald green and bright yellow - colors that became popular in the 17th with zellij mosaics. floor tile. hand painted tile.

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