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...
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...
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.
Why Handmade Tile Shrinks (And Why That Matters)
When we fire a tile, something invisible happens. The clay loses water. It gets smaller. For our wall body clay, that shrinkage is around seven percent. For our porcelain, it's...
A Real Re-Introduction
Tile Talk Tuesday: A Real Re-Introduction Hi, I'm Lindsay. And if you're new here — welcome. If you've been here a while — thank you. Either way, I thought it...
Painting Delft With My Seven-Year-Old
This week, my son Dino sat down at the painting table in our Nashville studio with a brush in his hand and a blank ivory tile in front of him....