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Porcelain Glazed Tiles
The Products: Glazed Tiles

The latin word ‘tegula’ and its french derivative ‘tuile’mean quite precisely a roof tile of baked clay. the english ‘tile’ is less precise, for it can in addition be used of any kind of earthenware slab applied to any surface of a building.the word ‘ceramic’ comes from the greek word ‘keramos’ meaning pottery, it is related to an old sanskrit root meaning ‘to burn’ but was primarily used to mean ‘burnt stuff’.

Origin

Historically, man has desired to create living spaces which were beautiful, durable, and user friendly.with that in mind, ceramic tile has been made by man for 4000 years.beautiful tiled surfaces have been found in the oldestpyramids, the ruins of babylon, and ancient ruins of greek cities.decorative tilework was invented in the near east, where it has enjoyed a longer popularity and assumed a greater variety of design than anywhere in the world. during the islamic period, all methods of tile decoration were brought to perfection in persia. In europe decorated tiles did not come into general use outside moorish spain until the second half of the 12th century. the tile mosaics of spain and portugal,the maiolica floor tiles of rennaisance italy, the faiences of antwerp, the development of tile iconography in england and in the netherlands, and the tiles of germany are all prominent landmarks in the history of tile.

Body Technique

The technique of tile and its secrets of trade were safely guarded and orally handed from father to son and master to student; thus rarely have designs, patterns and details of technique been documented and few complete treatises exist on the art of tile work in the past. each tile was hand-formed and hand-painted,each was a work of art in its own right.simply defined, ceramic tile is tile made of clay.tiles were made by hand, in early days clay bricks - made by flattening the clay and cutting pieces into shape - were dried beneath the sun or baked. later the only mechanical aid was a wooden mould carved in relief, which indented a pattern on the clay slab. the slab was dried and the impression filed with clay, which after further drying was shaved flat.
After the formation of the tile body, ceramic tiles go through a firing process in a kiln under very high heat to harden the tile body and to create the surface glaze. historically, unglazed tile was fired once. glazed tile was fired twice. the first firing formed a tile body called a ‘bisque’. the biscuit firing had the highest temperature at 1060 C that fixed the tiles for size and shape. after glazing the tiles were glost fired at about 1020 - 1240 C. on glaze decoration was fired at 750 C, just before the glaze began to melt.the modern tile industry was advanced by reviving the lost art of encaustic tile-making. the industry was further revolutionized in the 1840s by the ‘dust-pressing’ method which consisted of compressing nearly dry clay between two metal dies. dust-pressing replaced tile-making by hand with wet clay, and facilitated mechanization of the tile-making industry.