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Creating Custom Designs with Homemade, Handpainted Terracotta Tiles

Architectural Ceramics

Architectural Ceramics is helping bring homemade, handpainted terracotta tiles to the DC Metro area and invites you to come into one of our showrooms to check it out! Here’s a step-by-step guide to customized terracotta tile : Pick a color. However, when there are so many choices, sometimes it can get intimidating! Get a sample.

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Celebrating Distinctions in Mexican History and Tile

Architectural Ceramics

Handpainted Terracotta Tile, like our Duquesa Collection offers a fresh take on a decades-long tile tradition. The unifying factor, is that terra cotta tiles go through the same production process: a natural clay body is pressed or cut into shape and then baked and fired in a kiln. A vintage-vibe kitchen with terra cotta tile floors.

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Tile of Spain Manufacturers Present Top Micro-Trends that will Shape Architectural and Interior Design in 2021

Tile of Spain USA

With a hyperaware focus on creating collections that foster safe and sustainable environments, manufacturers utilized production techniques that fuse the functional qualities of ceramic materials with the versatility of graphic design. Painting styles, graphic design and other art-forms find fertile soil in decorative ceramic elements.

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Craft Outstanding Designs with Outdoor Floor Tiles from the Olvera Collection

Granada Tile

The Olvera tiles may look similar to terracotta or Saltillo, but they are far more resilient. Water from the production line and unused materials are also recycled. Colors will not easily fade as they are baked and not painted or dyed. These Rectangle4x8 tiles have the look of terracotta, clay, or brick on your floor.

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Ceramics of Italy unveils Cersaie 2024 trend report

Floor Covering News

According to Ceramics of Italy, tile products at the show’s 40th anniversary edition were imbued with a sense of inventiveness: color and pattern were bolstered by impressive surface technologies from extra soft finishes with high slip resistance to glossy matte effects.

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April Showers Bring May Flowers

Architectural Ceramics

With tools for homeowners, architects, contractors and distributors (that’s us) alike, Laticrete is a great resource for tile installation products and learning. Architectural Ceramics stocks a few of their products, a popular seller for example, is their grout. who specializes in painted cement tile. Schluter Systems.

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5 Surprising Facts About the NEW Olvera Collection

Granada Tile

They are sun-dried, and the water from production can be recycled, as can the molds. The color will never fade because it’s neither painted nor dyed, but hand-poured. substitute for traditional terracotta and Saltillo tiles which crack and break easily. do not contaminate the environment with chemicals.

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