encaustic

Brief - Manufacture a tiled wall panel to be
used as backsplash for an Aga cooker.
Comprised of plain terracotta tiles
combined with authentically manufactured
encaustic tiles, being reproductions of
12th Century tiles found in Chertsey
Abbey in London.

Encaustic tiles are made by impressing a
design into soft plastic clay. The
impression is then filled with a different
coloured clay, the tile finished, dried and
fired. The result is genrally used for floors
as it is hard wearing and the design wears
with the tile, unlike glazed decoration,
which is on the surface.
We have also reproduced tiles for
Westminster abbey, exactly to the design
as found in various areas within the abbey.