Avente Tile Blog — Handpainted Tiles

Our Whimsical Animal tiles provide a fun accent when combined with brightly colored plain tiles in this utility room. In fact, I'd venture to say that these hand-painted tiles, each unique and individual as the animals they depict, make laundry less of a chore.   All of the images were provided by Avente Tile Customer, Mary M., from Murphy, Oregon. After she received her tiles and completed the installation, she was kind enough to send us these images and an email showing her appreciation. In the email, Mary stated, "Thank you for your help with the purchase of our Whimsical...

We're thrilled to have a guest post today written by Susan Mussi, author of Ceramic Dictionary from Barcelona, Spain. If you're lucky, you may even find her hand-decorating tiles using the Majolica Method in her tile studio/shop, BenSu Ceramics. Pottery has always been popular in Spain, as evident with existence of earthenware pottery for thousands of years. During the years the Arabs were in Spain, they brought with them the Majolica method of decorating pottery, as well as to create beautiful tile and ceramics. Today's post provides a brief history of Majolica, a method of hand-painting or glazing ceramic tile. ...