tiles-bib - 5/28/02
A bibliography on period tile making by Master Magnus Malleus.
NOTE: See also the files: tiles-msg, Ceramics-Intro-art, ceramics-bib, Throwing-Pots-art, soapstone-msg, frescoes-msg, pottery-msg.
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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 16:26:24 -0500
From: rmhowe <MMagnusM at bellsouth.net>
To: - Potters <SCA-Potters at eGroups.com>
Subject: Some Medieval Tile Books
Some Medieval Tile Books
I've been adding some notes to my list of books I own.
Perhaps these would be of interest to some of you.
Personally, I find the charming designs to be inspirational for
other types of artwork.
Eames, Elizabeth: Irish Medieval Tiles: Decorated Medieval Paving
Tiles in Ireland with an Inventory of Sites and Designs in
a Visual Index. Circa 1250-1550.
Royal Irish Academy Monographs in Archaeology, Royal Irish Academy,
19 Dawson St., Dublin 2, 1988, ISBN 0901714623. http://www.ria.ie/
505 third scale examples, 8 colour photographs, six black and
white photographs, 47 line drawings, 148 pages. Includes a drawing
of a reconstruction of a medieval floor tile kiln. Hardbound.
Eames, Elizabeth: English Tilers, Medieval Craftmen Series;
University of Toronto Press 1992. ISBN 0802077064. Paperbound.
72 pages, 43 colour and 41 B&W Illustrations. Covers ovens,
tools, molds, techinques, many examples of embossed and inlaid
tiles, as well as shaped pattern tiles. Contains the only
surviving wooden tile stamp. Very pretty book!.
Eames, Elizabeth: English Medieval Tiles; British Museum, Harvard
University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1985.
Contains many of the same illustrations as the English Tilers
book by the same author, 72pp. Lacks the tool illustrations
but has the surviving stamp depicted in the English tilers
book. Mainly a rearrangement of the above. color and b&W. PP.
Grafton, Carol Belanger: Old English Tile Designs for Artists and
Craftspeople; with 161 Illustrations. Origninally published
as Mediaeval English Pavingtiles, in 1937, by Lord Haberly
(Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1937). Dover original edition 1984.
161 B&W illustrations, 128pp. 8 3/8 x 11". Unprovenanced but
said to be mostly from the Oxford region.
Liebgott, Niels-Knud: Kakler, Hovedtraek af kakkeloven historie ca.
1350-1650.1972. Concerns the making and construction details
for Kakler which are the deep relief oven tiles standing ovens
are made from. Nationalmuseet, Kobenhavn.
ISBN 874807061. 39pp. paperback. Some excellent designs,
knight on horseback for example. Some are made by turning
cylinders and cutting them in half, then building the border
around them and decorating.
Sherlock, David: Medieval Floor Tiles in Suffolk Churches; Suffolk
Historic Churches Trust, paperbound, no date but post 1980.
Possibly reachable through the The Old Rectory, Chattisham,
Ipswich IP8 3PY. 47pp. 157 oftentimes very pretty designs drawn
in dark brown on a parchment colored paper. With complete notes.
Stopford, Jennie: Recording Mediaeval Floor Tiles; Council for
British Archaeology Practical Handbook 10, 4.70GBP,
112 Kennington Road, London SE11 6RE, ISBN 1872414036.
46 page paperback with a few illustrations of tiles.
Short Bibliography.
Stopford, Jennie: Modes of Production Among Medieval Tilers; Medieval
Archaeology 37, 1993; pp. 93-108 with notes.
van Lemmen, Hans: Decorative Tiles Throughout the Ages, with 40 full
color plates; Crescent Books, Crown Publishers, Inc. 225 Park Ave.
South, New York, NY., Bracken Books 1988. ISBN 0517679604.
Very large format book. Only a few medieval tiles in full color,
quickly goes to later Renaissance Majolica tiles. About 90 pages.
Now if I were looking for an introductory book to produce some of
these in a modern fashion, I should look to:
Giorgini, Frank: Handmade Tiles - Designing, Making, Decorating;
Lark Books, Asheville, N.C., USA, ISBN 0937274763. $25.
1994, 144 very well illustrated color pages including how
to make a tile press, tools, and many examples with complete
instructions as to methods for the beginner. Well worth the money.
Magnus Malleus, OL / R.M. Howe
Windmasters' Hill, Atlantia
Great Dark Horde
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