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2. British Ceramic Tile - Wikipedia

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   British Ceramic Tile (BCT) is the largest manufacturer of ceramic and glass tiles in the UK, based in Devon. The company has been in operation at the Heathfield site, Newton Abbot since the 1850s. In September 2009, a major expansion of the BCT factory was completed, [1] making it the largest and most efficient tile-making plant on one site in ...

3. Maw & Co - Wikipedia

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   The new, purpose-built factory was the largest tile works in the world and the company was the world's largest producer of ceramic tiles, making more than 20 million pieces a year. The range of tiles was expanded over the years and included relief tiles, encaustic tiles, [ 1 ] mosaic tiles, transfer printed tiles and hand-painted picture tiles.

4. Mosaic - Wikipedia

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   A tile mosaic is a digital image made up of individual tiles, arranged in a non-overlapping fashion, e.g. to make a static image on a shower room or bathing pool floor, by breaking the image down into square pixels formed from ceramic tiles (a typical size is 1 in × 1 in (25 mm × 25 mm), as for example, on the floor of the University of ...

5. Jackfield Tile Museum - Wikipedia

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   Jackfield Tile Museum is a museum which presents the history of the British decorative tile industry between 1840 and 1960, the period in which this factory and that of Maw & Co nearby played an important part in this industry. [1]

6. Cosmati - Wikipedia

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   This mosaic is depicted in Hans Holbein's The Ambassadors. The general style of works of the Cosmati school is more closely related to Romanesque art , even though some of the buildings they worked in are Gothic , as in their main lines are their larger structures, especially in the elaborate altar-canopies, with their pierced geometrical tracery.

7. Invader (artist) - Wikipedia

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   Using tiles to represent the pixels in the games' 8-bit graphics, [5] [6] Invader began making mosaics in Paris in the 1990s, [7] [3] [4] and went on to install mosaics in 31 other cities in France. Invader has since staged "invasions" in cities and countries worldwide, including seven in New York City [4] and three in Hong Kong. [8]