Hand-Painted Glazed Tiles: Imperfection and Brushstrokes are Key

A close-up of a hand-painted glazed tile. The tile is a thirteen-centimeter square handmade terracotta tile, with glaze colors in a combination of cobalt blue, white, ochre yellow, and turquoise. The pattern is a repeating geometric or octagonal star motif. Each tile has slightly different brushstrokes, variations in line thickness, uneven color depth, and subtle crazing and flowing edges in the glaze. The pattern joints between tiles are not perfectly aligned. The surface has an uneven luster. Avoid: using printed machine-made antique imitation tiles, making the pattern on each tile perfectly identical, using highly saturated fluorescent colors, making the glaze surface perfectly flat and uniformly glossy.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一片手繪釉面磁磚的局部。磁磚是十三公分見方的手工陶磚,釉色是鈷藍、白、赭黃與綠松的組合,圖案是幾何或八角星形的重複紋樣。每一塊的筆觸都略有差異,線條有粗細變化,顏色深淺不勻,釉面有細微的開片與流動的邊緣。磚與磚之間的圖案接合處不完全對齊。表面有不均勻的光澤。避免:使用印刷的機製仿古磚、讓每一塊的圖案完全一致、使用高飽和的螢光色、把釉面做成完全平整均勻的光澤。