If you break, say, a solid blue tile in half, it will be blue on the inside. Ordinary tile, by contrast, has all its color and pattern on the surface — in the glaze. Encaustic tile can be made of ...

L’Antiquario carries about 2,500 patterns of antique encaustic and cement tiles reclaimed from churches, monasteries, chateaus and palaces in Europe, dating from 1850 to 1930.

Encaustic tiles date back to the 13th century, when they were made by using a beeswax paint to create designs that were set with heat. Today, they’re made with multiple colors of clay inlaid ...

We love encaustic tile and have always wondered if our house originally had it in the entry hall. None of our neighbors in the identical row seem to have any, and the first-floor entry is the original ...

The resulting tiles are frost-proof and non-slip, meaning that they are suitable for internal and external use. Assemble's team launched the Liverpool-based Granby Workshop shortly after finding ...