The art of handmade tiles
Target by Lubna Chowdhary.
The tile is an excellent product to get started in ceramics (or to continue for that matter). It allows you to explore clay – it’s textures, profiles and glazes. It can be painted and printed onto and when the tiles are all made it’s all the fun of arranging them together or enjoying just the one as a piece of art.
Lubna Chowdhary makes tiles in a cascade of colour, abstract pattern and graphic lines. Her tiles are made by pressing clay into a plaster mould or through rolling out slabs into which objects or tools are impressed. Above is a selection of tiles that Lubna Chowdhary has made for Agnes Emery.
Mariana Argüelles is a tile maker and also writer of the blog Tileworld, with lots of tile links and reviews of for instance Frank Giorgini’s book Handmade Tiles.
I think it has a gorgeous cover and although I haven’t read it, I’ve read lots of good things about it! Giorgini himself is also a tile maker and on his website he shows how he press moulds his tiles.
June 30th, 2006 at 9:50 am
I love the idea of pressing things into clay to make tiles. I am starting to work in letterpress so I’m all about pressing lately. I did ceramics in college, but haven’t had the opportunity since, and I miss it. You’ve given me a lot of ideas…type in clay…hmmm. Thanks!
June 30th, 2006 at 7:01 pm
Tiles are a great topic. Frank Giorgini lives up here. I met him last summer. Nice post-