This is our most popular glaze. You can see why, right? It's rich and jewel-like and the subtle colour variations run from sea green to deep mineral turquoise. It has the distinctly unromantic name of Nepheline Turquoise, named for one of the glaze components. But it's watery surface and vivid stained-glass depth make it an absolute pleasure to live with day to day in your home. This glaze works especially well on our hand made subway tiles.
Our subway tiles are unique. The usual method for creating hand made subways is to roll out a big sheet of clay on a slab roller, then cut each piece from the slab, either by hand, or with a template. This creates a nice tile with crisp edges and a uniformly flat surface. But what people love about our subways is their sensuous rounded edges and their very tactile softly varied surface texture - all this in a uniformly sized and shaped tile. Our secret is hand made plaster molds. Each tile is pressed by hand into a hand made mold. We have about ten different molds just for this plain subway piece, so each piece is a little bit different in surface character from the next.
These are the most unique and sensual (can you say that about a tile? we can!) hand made subways on the market. You'll see what we mean if you hold one in your hand.
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