| Show early tiles handmade sun dried then painted fainted the earliest tiles were made by impressing the soft clay of the half made tile with a pattern and when the clay was dry this impressed design was filled with a white slip the entire surface was then covered with a powdered lead oxide and given a baking the lead forming a transparent yellow glaze old spanish tiles were all of an inch thick these were pressed by hand only and do not have the hard close compression of the machine made tile in the old process the tiles were sun dried after hand pressing and then painted the designs to be found on tiles are almost infinite in variety and include coats of arms frequently found in medieval examples as wen well as conventional foliage and flowers ornaments derived from vegetable many forms animals badges shields texts mottoes emblems prayers human heads single flowers and composite pictures transfer print enameling on tiles was produced in liverpool as early as 1750 these tiles says a writer in the los angeles times were used and were lining stoves or walls for characters theatrical very popular represented 0 oa U were frequently them |
