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  2. Storey pole - Wikipedia

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    Storey pole used in masonry. A storey pole (or story pole, storey rod, [1] story stick, [2] jury stick, [3] scantling, [4] scantillon [5]) is a length of narrow board usually cut to the height of one storey. [6]

  3. Ceramic tile cutter - Wikipedia

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    The first tile cutter was designed to facilitate the work and solve the problems that masons had when cutting a mosaic of encaustic tiles (a type of decorative tile with pigment, highly used in 1950s, due to the high strength needed because of the high hardness and thickness of these tiles). Over the time the tool evolved, incorporating ...

  4. Herringbone pattern - Wikipedia

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    In parquetry, more casually known as flooring, herringbone patterns can be accomplished in wood, brick, and tile.Subtle alternating colors may be used to create a distinctive floor pattern, or the materials used may be the same, causing the floor to look uniform from a distance.

  5. Tile - Wikipedia

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    Delftware wall tiles, typically with a painted design covering only one (rather small) blue and white tile, were ubiquitous in Holland and widely exported over Northern Europe from the 16th century on, replacing many local industries. Several 18th century royal palaces had porcelain rooms with the walls entirely covered in porcelain in tiles or ...

  6. Penrose tiling - Wikipedia

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    A Penrose tiling with rhombi exhibiting fivefold symmetry. A Penrose tiling is an example of an aperiodic tiling.Here, a tiling is a covering of the plane by non-overlapping polygons or other shapes, and a tiling is aperiodic if it does not contain arbitrarily large periodic regions or patches.

  7. List of construction trades - Wikipedia

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    Also stonemason, marble setter and polisher, tile setter and polisher, terrazzo worker and finisher. Hod carrier is a subsidiary trade (also see Laborer). Millwright installs various industrial equipment. Painter, a tradesperson responsible for the painting and decorating of buildings, and is also known as a decorator or house painter. [8]

  8. Bullnose - Wikipedia

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    Bullnose ceramic tile trim. Bullnose is a term used in building construction for rounded convex trim, particularly in masonry and ceramic tile. [1] It is also used in relation to road safety and (formerly) railroad engineering design.

  9. Pythagorean tiling - Wikipedia

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    A Pythagorean tiling Street Musicians at the Door, Jacob Ochtervelt, 1665.As observed by Nelsen [1] the floor tiles in this painting are set in the Pythagorean tiling. A Pythagorean tiling or two squares tessellation is a tiling of a Euclidean plane by squares of two different sizes, in which each square touches four squares of the other size on its four sides.

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