Old Patterned Tiles: Removed Piece by Piece and Re-tiled

Close-up of a decorative wall or tabletop re-tiled with old patterned tiles. The tiles are hand-pressed colored ceramic tiles common in Taiwan and Southeast Asia, approximately fifteen centimeters square, with symmetrical floral, geometric, or animal patterns. The colors are mainly peacock green, cobalt blue, ochre red, goose yellow, and white, with a thick, slightly uneven glaze. Because they are salvaged from old houses, each tile has a different degree of wear, some with chipped corners, some with faded colors, and some still with cement on the back. When pieced together, the patterns are not perfectly continuous, creating a layered, patchwork effect. The edges are finished with plain cement or a wooden frame. Avoid: using brand new, perfectly uniform mass-produced patterned tiles, making the patterns perfectly aligned and continuous, using modern printed flat patterns, depicting the tile surface as smooth without glaze thickness.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一面以老花磚重新拼貼的裝飾牆或桌面近景。磚是台灣與南洋常見的手壓彩瓷磚,約十五公分見方,圖案是對稱的花草、幾何或動物,設色以孔雀綠、鈷藍、赭紅、鵝黃與白為主,釉面有厚度與微微的凹凸。因為是從老屋拆下的,每一塊的磨損程度不同,有的邊角缺損、有的顏色較淡、有的背面水泥還在,拼在一起時圖案並不完全連續,呈現出拼湊的層次。周邊以素色的水泥或木框收邊。避免:使用全新工整的量產花磚、讓圖案完全對齊連續、使用現代印刷質感的平面圖樣、把磚面畫得光滑無釉厚。