MEDIEVAL TILES
REPLICA ENCAUSTIC TILES FOR SALE
These replica Medieval floor tile designs are faithful to the originals, dating from the mid thirteenth to mid sixteenth century. I carve a pattern block from wood for each design and the stamped impression is filled with a slip inlay. The final colour is determined by the strength of the honey glaze, which I vary to recreate the variations found in the original wood fired ceramics.
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Stamped clay tile with medieval daisy chain impressed pattern
Cow's horn slip trailer fills the pattern with white earthenware clay
Mediaeval tile pattern filled with clay slip
Mediaeval tile from Luton c1350 with Daisy pattern for the Virgin Mary
Stockwood Discovery Park Medieval Tiler's Gallery exhibition
Original ‘Daisy chain’ tile from Luton c1350.
Replica made for the museum
‘Tiler’s Workshop’ 2008.
After carving a wooden pattern block, I stamp the wet clay tile and fill the depressed area with white clay slip, using a horn trailer.
After 5 days the clay is stiff and can be carved flat, dried, fired and glazed with a ‘honey’ glaze. Made for the Medieval Gallery, Stockwood Discovery Park, Luton.
Worcester Medieval tiles c1450 Tree of Life and Holy Trinity pattern
Greyhounds, Lurchers, Wolfhounds or DeerHounds run around the circle of oak leaves
‘Tree of Life’ Worcester c1450
Fleur de Lis, Fleur de Lys parti-<wbr>coloured design with mirror image
Medieval Archer with Yew bow, quiver of arrows and medieval costume
Concise Medieval design shows the jousting lance and armour
Kennilworth medieval MARIA tile subtle use of a cipher design
Richard the Lionheart rides to battle Saladin in the Crusades
Gothic Fleur de Lys tile traditional honey glazed impressed slip encuastic tile
‘Running Hound’ Kent c1280
4 tiles together make the dog run round.
‘Archer’
Westminster c.1280
‘Fleur de Lys’ Gloucestershire c.1540
‘Knight with Lance’ Somerset c.1350
‘Maria’
Kennilworth c1350
‘Knight with sword’
Surrey c.1350
‘Gothic’
Winchester c.1350
Sizes: All thick floor tiles are 4.5 inches or 11.5 cm square approximately.
Thinner ‘wall tile’ style tiles are slightly smaller.
These tiles will vary in size slightly because they are hand made items!
I create copies for museums for displays and my tiles are also bought by people for their homes. Thicker floor tiles are suitable for fire hearths and floors, thin wall tiles are made in all designs.
Prices: £18 per patterned tile, £5 per plain tile, £5 per letter tile, all plus postage.
Medieval Dove tile depicts Holy Sprit and Ascension
Mediaeval encaustic tile depicting St. Mark as a lion c1350
Replica encaustic medieval slip decorated tile with lion
Doves are traditionally used to depict the Holy Spirit
Original tiles
Lion, Doves
Nuneaton c.1350
Traditional hand carved wooden block to stamp the tile pattern
Medieval letter tiles were laid around the edge of a tiled floor
Each tile is a quarter of the size of a regular medieval tile
Lombardic letter tiles from the West Midlands
Lombardic letter h was the only tile excavated in the museum
Nuneaton Priory Tiles c.1350
Original tiles and replicas. A Lion, two doves and small letter ‘h’ tile.
I was asked to recreate these for a handling collection for the museum, and carried on to create the rest of the 24 letter alphabet, based on letters from Coventry, Kennilworth and Nuneaton. These small, quarter sized tiles would have been laid around the edge of the priory floor, spelling out prayers.
Letter Tiles £5 each.
Note - I and J, U and V are the same letter.
Original ‘h’
Made as a 4 letter tile,
then split, as they were.