Project One - a tile sampler

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Author

Tom Chamberlain

Published

July 10, 2025

Modified

October 10, 2025

Project One - a tile sampler

When I first started making tiles during the summer of 2024 I experimented with stamps and moulds and addressed some of the the issues of clays, inlays and glazes. The pile of fired tiles started to pile up - and not all of them were rejects. As the pile grew I resolved to make a tile ‘sampler’ - in the same vein as an embroidery ‘sampler’ as was made by Victorian girls to demonstrate their mastery of embroidery.

Needle work sampler (V and A Museum)

This project is the subject of an article in an up coming edition of the TACS ‘Glazed Expression’ and I will complete this post once the article has been published.

The TACS article has now been published (Issue 96, Oct 2025) and so I can now work to add more detail to this post.