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I came across this piece of restored flooring recently. It's a 1,000-year-old stretch of medieval tiling from a Benedictine abbey. What makes it especially interesting is that the monks made their floor from repurposed Roman tiles and hypocaust bricks that they found on site. This seems, to me, to have been a practical, attractive, and environmentally sound arrangement, and I was much taken with it. #Photography #History #Archaeology #Church #Tiles #Romans

Marazzi's Mystone Pietra di Sicilia: high-performance tiles capturing the warmth of Sicilian stone https://www.dezeen.com/2026/09/01/mystone-pietra-di-sicilia-tiles-marazzi-dezeen-showroom/ #lifestyle #design #tiles

Marazzi's Mystone Pietra di Sicilia: high-performance tiles capturing the warmth of Sicilian stone https://www.dezeen.com/2026/09/01/mystone-pietra-di-sicilia-tiles-marazzi-dezeen-showroom/ Dezeen Showroom: the warmth of Sicilian stone is the inspiration for Italian brand Marazzi's Mystone Pietra di Sicilia collection of tiles. Mystone Pietra di Sicilia combines the high-performance… #lifestyle #design #tiles

I love this tile frieze in one of the ground floor shops in the Glasgow Style Caledonian Mansions on Great Western Road. Currently home to Roots, Fruits and Flowers, its first occupant, in 1904, was Northern Farmers, a butcher, meat and farm produce seller, and this frieze may well date back to this time. #glasgow #tiles #architecturephotography #architecture #kelvinbridge

G. Cleaning Day. Painting - Gouache On Paper. Cleaning Day is a gouache painting showing different containers used for cleaning, a red bucket with a white cloth, plastic bottles and containers in blue, yellow, semitransparent, showing cleaning liquids inside. [ Prints : https://james-mccormack.pixels.com/featured/cleaning-day-james-mccormack.html?utm_source=mastodonIE&utm_medium=social ] #cleaningday #bottle #bucket #cleaning #bottles #containers #tiles #cloth

A fine example of a wally close in the Broomhill area of Glasgow. A wally close is a tiled a commununal stairwell a Glasgow tenement, with the word wally being a Scots word for anything made from ceramics or china. This can include wally dugs (china dogs), and wallies (or false teeth). This, in itself, is derived from an older meaning of anything fancy, splendid or highly decorative. #glasgow #broomhill #tenements #tiles #ceramics #tenementtiles #wallyclose