A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 398
other, which formstiic suhjict of the present article, the processesof tl](; putter are employed. The most common forms of earthenware inuse in arcliitccture are floor, roof, and wall til-ing, the last having for its primary object the KERAMICS protection of buildings by an indestructible sur-face,… … of a semivitreous fracture (such as porcelain orstoneware), and consequently less adapted forfloor tiling than for walls or roofs. When usedfor this purpose on ordinary earthenware bodies,the floor is slippery so long as the glaze retainsits freshness, and as soon as it is worn down byuse the soft…
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