Look up: tiles

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   Tiles
   while associated primarily with roofs, they are used throughout buildings to provide floors and walls. They have been produced in quantity since medieval times using what is essentially the same process as brick manufacture. Wherever bricks were made, tiles were too, and generally command...
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   Tiles
   Tiles are pieces of roofing material, regular in size and shape so as to allow a roof to be covered evenly and rapidly. Tiles may be made of fired clay or of concrete. Clay tiles may be flat (rosemary tiles), of an S-shaped section (pantiles), or of some special section. They are usually fixed on battens. Concrete tiles may be flat, and diamond-sha ...
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   Tiles
   Decorated ceramic slabs for roof, wall or floor decoration. maiolica tiles of 15thC Italy were designed for flooring, but their bright colours inspired Spanish and Portuguese pictorial wall tiles. The Dutch produced monochrome blue and white or manganese purple and white wall tiles which were exported throughout Europe from the 17th to 19th centuri ...
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