Tales from the Tileworks
We Made 8,880 Custom Tiles for a Park Bathroom, and We'd Do It Again Tomorrow
Elizabeth started with Japanese tessellated tile. It was incredible — and at the scale of that wall, unbuildable. Here's how we got from there to 8,880 pieces of handmade mosaic...
I’m going to Italy!!
There was always a reason not to. A kiln that needed attention. An order that couldn’t slip. The quiet math of a small shop where the owner leaving for a...
How To Plan A Remodel Timeline (Without A Designer)
Most remodels don't run late because one thing was slow. They run late because the decisions got made in the wrong order. Here's the pattern we see constantly. Someone picks...
A Tobacco Barn, a Possum, and an Upright Bass: How a Custom Delft Tile Gets Made
How a custom Americana Delft tile goes from a conversation to a hand-painted icon. Delft was never really about decoration. When Dutch painters started putting cobalt on white tile...
Tile Talk Tuesday: We Added 12 New Americana Delft Icons and Never Said a Word
Meet the New Ones The barnyard and the frontier. Sunrise Rooster and Daybreak Hen are a pair, and they look best that way — one at each end of a run, like they're keeping...
It Has to Be Red Rock": Why We Do This!
I want to tell you about Perenn Bakery. But really, I want to tell you why we do this at all. Perenn is Tyler and Aubrey O'Laskey's project — a...
5 American tile studios we admire (and why)
"American made" in tile means a person, not a sticker. Meet 4 U.S. studios doing handmade right — plus a charred-wood story from our Nashville shop.
Who Makes Your Red Rock Tile
You know the tiles. You know the colors, the textures, the way they feel in a space. But do you know who made them? At Red Rock Tileworks, we're a...