As 2024 draws to a close, the Italian ceramic and porcelain tile industry is revealing a spectrum of new trends that blend artistry with technical prowess and sustainable advancements. From an ...

Frances Priest creates ceramic vessels, tiles, and sculptural forms that explore the possibilities of pattern.

Copies of these two tiles can form infinitely many different patterns that go on forever, called Penrose tilings. Yet no matter how you arrange the tiles, you’ll never get a periodic repeating ...

Polygons needed to be perfect. Most mosaic tile walls in medieval Islamic buildings are based on a polygon and star pattern, with lines atop them creating a zip-zag look [image].

But underneath, he saw a fainter red pattern that broke the design up into five decorated tiles: a decagon, a pentagon, a hexagon, a bowtie, and a rhombus. An archway in the Sultan’s Lodge in ...