Terracotta glazed tiles: handmade unevenness

A wall covered with handmade glazed terracotta tiles. The tiles are small rectangles, about ten by twenty centimeters, with uneven thickness and slightly undulating edges, not machine-cut straight lines. The glaze color is warm russet orange or avocado green, with varying shades for each tile—some have thick, rich glaze, others are thin and reveal the terracotta color underneath, with the deepest glaze accumulation at the corners. The surface is semi-glossy, reflecting light irregularly, so the entire wall shimmers with an organic texture under light. The tiles are arranged in a stack bond or herringbone pattern, with thin grout lines close in color to the tiles. Paired with a wooden countertop and brass hardware. Avoid: using machine-produced uniform tiles, making all tiles exactly the same color, using high-gloss mirror glaze, making grout lines wide and strongly contrasting.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一面以手工釉面陶磚鋪成的牆。磚是小尺寸的長方形,約十公分乘二十公分,厚度不均,邊緣略有起伏而不是機器切齊的直線。釉色是溫暖的赭橘或酪梨綠,每一塊的深淺都不相同——有的釉厚而濃、有的薄而透出底下的陶土色,轉角處積釉最深。表面是半光的,反射不規則,因此整面牆在光下呈現閃爍而有機的層次。磚以疊砌或人字的方式排列,縫隙細而顏色接近磚體。旁邊搭配木質的檯面與黃銅五金。避免:使用機器量產的均勻磁磚、讓所有磚的顏色完全一致、使用高光的鏡面釉、把縫隙做得寬而對比強烈。