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  2. Ancient Roman pottery - Wikipedia

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    Ceramic tiles were not normally used for flooring in Roman buildings, though opus signinum, a favoured flooring material, was composed of concrete and crushed tile, and carefully cut small squares from tiles were often used in mosaic floors, tesserae about 2–3 cm. square being used for plain borders, and smaller squares, about 1 cm., where a ...

  3. Azulejo - Wikipedia

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    The earliest azulejos in the 13th century were panels of tile-mosaic known as alicatados (from Arabic: ﻗَﻄَﻊَ, romanized: qata'a, lit. 'to cut'), [6] [7]: 24 known as zellij in Islamic architecture. [8] Tiles were glazed in a single colour, cut into geometric shapes, and assembled to form geometric patterns.

  4. Ceramic art - Wikipedia

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    A tile is a manufactured piece of hard-wearing material such as ceramic, stone, metal, or even glass, generally used for covering roofs, floors, walls, showers, or other objects such as tabletops. Alternatively, tile can sometimes refer to similar units made from lightweight materials such as perlite , wood , and mineral wool , typically used ...

  5. Designed Tiles - Wikipedia

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    Designed Tiles did fill custom orders: either stencilled silkscreens made for ceramic art studios or the designing and printing of a custom tile order. [ 8 ] Certain companies incorporated known tiles by Designed Tiles into their products: examples are Cellini Argental trays , anonymous brass ashtrays and coasters, and in metal and wood furniture.

  6. Structural clay tile - Wikipedia

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    Also called building tile, structural terra cotta, hollow tile, saltillo tile, and clay block, the material is an extruded clay shape with substantial depth that allows it to be laid in the same manner as other clay or concrete masonry. In North America it was chiefly used during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, reaching peak popularity ...

  7. Fürstenzug - Wikipedia

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    In order to make the work weatherproof, it was replaced with approximately 23,000 Meissen porcelain tiles between 1904 and 1907. With a length of 102 metres (335 ft), it is known as the largest porcelain artwork in the world.

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