Handmade Tile

Author: Forrest Lesch-Middelton
Publisher: Quarry Books
ISBN: 0760364303
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 211

Book Description
Handmade Tile is a contemporary guide for ceramic artists and anyone interested in custom tile installations—from making, designing, and decorating to designing your space and installation. No matter how many years of experience you have as a ceramic artist or how many home-improvement projects you've tackled, nothing prepares you for the unique world of ceramic tile. From concept and design, through firing and installation, ceramic tiling is one of the few places in a home where art is permanently installed as a feature of a room. In Handmade Tile, Forrest Lesch-Middelton shares everything he's learned as the founder and owner of the custom tile business FLM Ceramics and Tile. From his years as a one-man operation to his current production facility, Forrest has seen it all and helps you every step of the way. Whether you want to make your own tile, or want to use artistic and custom-made tile in your home, this book has everything you need. Key features of the book include: Making Tile: key tools, rolling, cutting, extruding Decorating: glazes, image transfer, cuerda seca, underglaze, slip Designing Your Space: tile in context, choosing your tile, codes and standards Installation: removing old tile, backing, preparing surfaces, setting, grouting Galleries and interviews with today's top workings artists in tile round out the package. Featured artists include Allison Bloom, Boris Aldridge, Disc Interiors, PV Tile, and more.

Ceramic Art Tile for the Home

Author: DeBorah Goletz
Publisher: Schiffer Book for Collectors
ISBN: 9780764312977
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This book is a wonderful introduction to art tile, loaded with ideas and resources that will charm and inspire. Hundreds of breathtaking photographs of installations in and out of the home show the work of todays leading contemporary tile artists. Insightful text includes a history of American tile making, designing with art tile, trends in art tile, and ceramic tile in public places. A large resource index and a directory of artists is included.

Tile Art

Author: Noël Riley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decorative arts
Languages : en
Pages : 136

Book Description

Tile Makes the Room

Author: Robin Petravic
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
ISBN: 1607747413
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
From Heath Ceramics, the beloved California designer, maker, and seller of home goods, comes a captivating and unprecedented look at beautifully designed interiors where tile is an important and integral part of the design. Tile Makes the Room, by Heath’s owners Robin Petravic and Catherine Bailey, winners of the National Design Award from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, is about exceptional spaces and places—the kind you want to step into and examine each and every detail of—where tile is the main ingredient, though not the only star. From the dwellings of notable designers to everyday homeowners, grand installations and subtle designs all showcase tile’s role in the form and function of architecture and interiors. The book, for design professionals and aficionados alike, features inspiration on every page; a look at tile making; a unique perspective on color, pattern, and texture; and public installations around the world to visit and enjoy, Tile Makes the Room is essential reading on interiors and tile.

Art of Handmade Tile

Author: Kristin Peck
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440220042
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 144

Book Description
Creating handmade decorator tiles can be fun and easy! This friendly approach to making handmade ceramic tiles demonstrates how to design, fire, and decorate stunning tiles and provides ideas for creatively utilizing them in the home. More than 200 photos guide readers through each step of the creation process and then into four projects: culinary tiles, twig tiles, house numbers, and a mirror. Suitable for every skill level, this book also contains inspiration and insight from established artists from around the country. • Detailed instructions, photographs, and illustrations ensure success • Includes diverse designs and inspiration from artists throughout the country

American Art Tile

Author: Norman Karlson
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
From the world's foremost collector, here is the new, fully illustrated standard guide to America's first golden age of tile making. American Art Tile presents more than 2,000 tiles, arranged geographically and chronologically, made by more than 100 American potteries and manufacturers from the Civil War to the 194Os. Full-color photographs illustrate these collectible and rare tiles from all regions of the United States, as well as historic landmark tile installations, from the New York subway to Catalina Island. Tile collectors will appreciate the meticulously researched history of each pottery, biographies of tile makers, and rare examples (seldom seen even in museums) from little-known potteries in Norman Karlson's personal collection.

Making & Installing Handmade Tiles

Author: Angelica Pozo
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781600594090
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 164

Book Description
Contains creative techniques for a number of ceramic tile projects with detailed information and instruction on basic tools and materials, glaze application, and techniques for making slab tiles.

HomeSkills: Ceramic Tile

Author: Editors of Cool Springs Press
Publisher: Cool Springs Press
ISBN: 1610588509
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
DIVAs part of our comprehensive HomeSkills DIY series, HomeSkills: Ceramic Tile turns each of your bland surfaces into a blank canvas./divDIV/divDIVTo many homeowners, laying tile sounds like a recipe for stress, physical injury, artistic embarrassment, or all of the above. But weâ€™ll let you in on a secret: with some basic knowledge and a little persistence, anyone can do itâ€”and youâ€™ll feel especially proud when you tally up the money you just saved by doing it yourself. With HomeSkills: Ceramic Tile, youâ€™ll receive expert instruction in the fundamentals of tiling your living space. Through user-friendly project descriptions and vivid how-to photography, youâ€™ll learn all the necessary tiling skills in a concise, accessible way: designing your layout and selecting the perfect tiles, handling and cutting them properly, working with grouts and adhesives, and putting the finishing touches on a confident installation. Youâ€™ll be able to tackle any surface, from floors and walls to countertops and backsplashes, and at any pace you preferâ€”take it easy and get it just right over time or blast away and transform an entire room in an afternoon. So set your hesitations aside. HomeSkills: Ceramic Tile is your one-stop DIY guide to the custom tile job you never thought you could pull off./divDIV/divDIVCheck out our five other HomeSkills guides on carpentry, deck building, landscaping, plumbing, and wiring./div

1000 TILES

Author: Gordon Lang
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811842358
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Book Description

Handmade Tiles

Author: Frank Giorgini
Publisher: Lark Books
ISBN: 9781579902711
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 154

Book Description
Text and photographs show how to design and fabricate flat and relief tiles, decorate and fire the tiles, install the finished tiles, and much more.