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The Tile Design Library encompasses a variety of historic styles of art tiles and tile decorating techniques.
After over 30 years of business, we hope we can share our enthusiasm for the medium with you. We offer the Tile Design Library (and our consultation) in hope you will more fully understand what tiles are appropriate to which historic styles of architecture. Our clients enthusiastically request additional designs to create custom installations. Contact the Studio to discuss your projects further.
 The Victorian Transfer Tile lines - Anglo-Japanese, Neo-Grec, and Gothic Revival - are executed in a similar technique developed by English Art Tile Studios during the 1880's and used to the early 20th century. The designs are printed using a lithographic method and fired into the glazed tile. Our proprietary technique creates very durable tiles that differ from low fired "decal" tiles you may find elsewhere. The designs are shown in one colorway, the background colors may be changed to either Historic White or Aged Parchment.
 The rest of the tiles shown in the Tile Design Library are executed in a variety of hand-painted/hand-decorated techniques ranging from underglaze, on-glaze majolica, tube-lined, "cuerda seca" and "cuenca". These techniques have been used from the time of the tile architecture of Persia and Turkey; the Moor's forays into Spain; early Dutch, Italian, Portuguese tile and pottery painters; English adaptations of world collected designs; and further dissemination of historic designs to American Art Tile Studios in the teens and 20's who each put their own special "spin" on the patterns. It's a wonderful history of design. Everyone borrowed from everyone else -- inspiration, designs, techniques, and technology.
 Our Arts & Crafts style panel - "A Good Book..." (© DIT 1999) has been requested by some of our clients looking forward to the day that the restoration projects are finally over and they will actually have the time to light a fire and read a book. The panel is perfect for a fireplace. It measures 6" x 24" and can be highlighted with any 6" x 6" or 6" x 3" decorative tiles. A great tile for this is our hand-crafted faience tile. (For more examples, see our "Arts & Crafts Geometric" page.)
  California Arts & Crafts Tiles & Panels: Hispano-Moresque shows tile patterns and colorations found primarily in California and Florida during the 20's and 30's. The bright tropical colors and softer hued pastels are "documentary" variations on a theme and can be incorporated into your home according to your personal taste. The "Turned Crane Panel", in another colorway, can also be viewed installed in Kitchen Installations: CA Arts & Crafts.
We sincerely hope you enjoy these designs.
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