Handmade Terracotta Square Tiles: Thick, Rough, Polished

A floor paved with handmade terracotta square tiles. The tiles are thick, thirty-centimeter square terracotta, with colors ranging from orange-red, ochre-brown to grayish pink, showing significant color variation on the same floor; the surface is uneven, with hand-pressed indentations and firing spots, and the edges are not perfectly straight. The grout lines are wider, filled with light gray or beige cement mortar. The surface, after long use, develops a warm luster. Avoid: using machine-made tiles with perfectly uniform color, using glossy polished glazed tiles, making the grout lines extremely thin, using printed tiles that imitate terracotta patterns.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一個鋪著手工赤陶方磚的地面。磚是三十公分見方的厚實陶磚,顏色從橘紅、赭褐到偏灰的粉紅都有,同一片地面上的色差明顯;表面不平整,有手工壓製的凹凸與燒製的斑點,邊緣不完全筆直。磚縫較寬,填的是淺灰或米色的水泥砂漿。使用久了的表面會被磨出溫潤的光澤。避免:使用顏色完全均勻的機製磁磚、使用亮面拋光的釉面磚、把磚縫做得極細、使用仿陶紋的印刷磁磚。