Also called building tile, structural terra cotta, hollow tile, saltillo tile, and clay block, the material is an extruded clay shape with substantial...

available materials such as clay or slate. Later tiles have been made from materials such as concrete, and plastic. Roof tiles can be affixed by screws or...

Tiles are usually thin, square or rectangular coverings manufactured from hard-wearing material such as ceramic, stone, metal, baked clay, or even glass...

as floor tiles, or for walls. They have a low water absorption rate, generally less than 0.5 percent. The clay used to build porcelain tiles is generally...

or inlaid tiles are ceramic tiles in which the pattern or figure on the surface is not a product of the glaze but of different colors of clay. They are...

Mangalore tiles (also Mangalorean tiles) are a type of roof tile native to the city of Mangalore, India. A variation of the Marseilles tiles developed...

of Vitrified tiles - Soluble salt, Double charge, Full Body, and Glazed. Vitrified tile is made by hydraulic pressing a mixture of clay, quartz, feldspar...

golden colors. Saltillo tile flooring can be found in many shapes and sizes. Tiles are shaped either by pressing quarried clay with a wooden frame (super)...

ceramic tiles of fired clay, which were similar to terracotta pipes yet not always shaped as pipes. In the 19th century a C-shaped channel tile commonly...

extruded terracotta made it competitive with other hollow clay tile alternatives at the time. In tiles form, terracotta had a renewal as a hallmark of mid-century...