Also known as ‘delft’, or majolica, the liquid glaze used on the tile has an opacifier e.g. tin oxide, added to an otherwise transparent glaze to make it white and opaque (other materials can be added to produce various off white tints). This glaze is poured over the tiles and allowed to dry.
The unfired powdery surface is then painted by hand using mixtures of oxides and glaze stains: copper for green, cobalt for blue, manganese for purple/ pink/brown etc. The chemical make-up of the underlying glaze can further vary the colours e.g. copper can be made to produce brilliant turquoise as opposed to a deep green. After decorating, the tiles are fired fixing the colours and the white glaze permanently.
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- Hand painted frogs in grey blue on white glazed 6″ tiles
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- A small traditional blue and white tile panel. 6″ tiles.
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- farmyard and other animals- single ‘delft’ tiles
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- Deep blue bird+ leaf tiles
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- Mermaids tiles
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- different coloured backgrounds
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- Designed for a Swedish textile expert, based on English ‘blackwork’ embroidery.
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- Green on cream glaze , handpainted tiles. 6″ tiles.
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- single tile designs with different coloured glazes and decoration and borders. 6″ tiles.
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- Tin glaze tiles hand painted, multi colours with myrtle leaves.
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- Cats + dogs handprinted tiles.
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- Chicken-Traditional ‘delft’ blue and white hand painted tile.
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- A tiled dining table top brush decorated with British fruits- on cream ground.
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- Fern splashback
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- Part of a series of ‘chinese style’ brush decorated tile panels for a bathroom.
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- Hand painted tin glaze tiles. Game.
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- Gamebirds. Cream + brown tile splashback
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- Bordered cream tin glaze
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- traditional clay blue and whites’ small birds’
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- Trad. designs on standard 6″ tiles
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- blue and white animal tiles
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