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<p>[QUOTE="Finnclouds, post: 9735312, member: 84680"]Sorry to butt in, but this was too much of a coincidence not to.</p><p><br /></p><p>We just spent part of the afternoon installing this mural below in our backyard.</p><p>(I need to clean up the surrounds after the cement dries a bit.) </p><p><br /></p><p>New, but totally hand-made and -painted Portuguese tile, in the old style. They are made in the old way from scratch — local clay, hand-rolled and cut and fired in old kilns in small factories. We’ve installed several before — these were the thickest so far. I didn’t measure them, but close to 20 millimeters, I’d say, though the thickness varies, as does their size, from tile to tile. </p><p><br /></p><p>I don’t know if they make them the same way in the Netherlands, but it’s still a (somewhat) thriving industry here. But so is apparently stealing old tiles from buildings and selling them at flea markets…</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]474896[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Finnclouds, post: 9735312, member: 84680"]Sorry to butt in, but this was too much of a coincidence not to. We just spent part of the afternoon installing this mural below in our backyard. (I need to clean up the surrounds after the cement dries a bit.) New, but totally hand-made and -painted Portuguese tile, in the old style. They are made in the old way from scratch — local clay, hand-rolled and cut and fired in old kilns in small factories. We’ve installed several before — these were the thickest so far. I didn’t measure them, but close to 20 millimeters, I’d say, though the thickness varies, as does their size, from tile to tile. I don’t know if they make them the same way in the Netherlands, but it’s still a (somewhat) thriving industry here. But so is apparently stealing old tiles from buildings and selling them at flea markets… [ATTACH=full]474896[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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