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Title: when painting floor tiles
Post by: smolders on 04 December 2012, 01:28:17 PM

Fellows:
When I want to paint floor tiles on a base...some ceramic type floor tiles like you might find in a victorian bath room for instance, where shoud the highlight be painted for the best effect middle or edge?

Many thanks

Title: Re: when painting floor tiles
Post by: SBRPearce on 04 December 2012, 02:16:29 PM

A proper Victorian-era tile would have been cut by hand and be dead-flat, so a center or distributed highlight is appropriate. Modern repro tiles are machine-cut with an eased edge that contributes to an edge highlight. (And, incidentally, makes laying such tiles on floors and counter-tops a royal, screaming, freaking pain, especially when you discover this after sourcing, buying, and laying them as a repair on an existing pre-1900 tile surface. Go ahead, ask me how I know... :-[  )