Leadless decorative tiles, faience, and mosaic, comprising notes and excerpts on the history, materials, manufacture & use of ornamental flooring tiles, ceramic mosaic, and decorative tiles and faience, with complete series of recipes for tile-bodies, and for leadless glazes and art-tile enamels (1904)
Furnival, W. J. (William James) · Stone, Staffordshire, W.J. Furnival · leaf 548
the tile, and this is almost filled with commoner quality of clay, usually coarse red clay ; upon this a backing of cane- coloured clay is pressed, to compensate n n t the other layer of similar clay, and the whole is then brought under a hand- press, and after pressing is placed aside to stiffen.… … effects ; for example, buff or black encaustic- Fig. 209. — Red and buff encaustic tile, figured tiles may be made in a simpler 6 inches by 6 inches. manner, by forming a plastic tile of black clay upon a mould having the figure in relief ; then, when this tile is removed from the mould, buff…
Pottery · Tiles · Mosaics · Enamel and enameling
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