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Leadless decorative tiles, faience, and mosaic, comprising notes and excerpts on the history, materials, manufacture & use of ornamental flooring tiles, ceramic mosaic, and decorative tiles and faience, with complete series of recipes for tile-bodies, and for leadless glazes and art-tile enamels

Furnival, W. J. (William James) · 1904 · Stone, Staffordshire, W.J. Furnival · 35 pictures

A 1904 technical manual on leadless tiles, faience and ceramic mosaic, written by William James Furnival and published in Stone, Staffordshire, for potters and tile makers with recipes for bodies and glazes. The four pictures show decorative tile designs: a corner ornament of scrolls and leaves, a raised rosette tile with acanthus corners, a faded flowing foliage pattern, and a white fleur-de-lis on black, offering repeatable motifs for pattern and surface design.

Pottery · Tiles · Mosaics · Enamel and enameling

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