![]() ![]() It also makes them water-resistant so they’re safe to use in moisture-prone spots such as pool surrounds and bathrooms. The best tessellated tiles are made from fully vitrified porcelain, which gives them the strength and superior scratch and stain resistance you need for high-traffic areas such as pathways and steps. Tile quality varies and this affects the appearance, performance and lifespan of your tessellated floor. While tessellated floors are a distinctive feature of heritage homes, their striking good looks and virtually limitless design potential makes them a great fit for modern homes too. Decorative encaustic tiles and step treads can be used to complete the look of a tessellated floor. Tessellated tiles are loose tiles in different shapes, sizes and colours that are laid in a geometric pattern to create a tessellated floor.Ī tessellated floor is made up of three components the tile pattern itself, a tile border (this frames the pattern), and a tile filler (which acts as a buffer between the border and the edge of the floor). It also shows the little guy in my life these days, my puggle Duncan.Tessellated tiles are the perfect finishing touch for a heritage home – and they can look incredible in contemporary homes too. The picture below shows the quilt above thrown over a sofa, displaying the backing. That is, after all, why we quilters quilt, isn’t it? To transform, to excite, to create and to have fun? It is one of the main reasons I’m hooked on quilting. ![]() But by using striking materials, a bold and exciting quilt can emerge. Using complementary fabrics such a simple design can appear quite complex and interesting.Īnd last but not least is the simplest of tessellated patterns,the rail fence – literally three strips sewn together. Experiences like that made me truly thankful to get a longarm machine (see the March 18 post)īelow is a small wall hanging that features an intricate-looking tessellated pattern. This one was quilted on a regular sized sewing machine using “stitch-in-the-ditch” quilting. One example is this king-sized quilt commissioned by one of my good friends before I started my business. Even though I made this quilt it is hard for me to believe it has but one flat plane.Īnother common tessellation is the “hills and valleys” pattern. I’m particularly fond of patterns like this that produce almost a 3-D effect. Yesterday’s post also showed a quilt with a tessellated pattern: ![]() Below is another closeup showing what the back looks like. It is for sale, however, because I have a single bed and no place to display it. This quilt was made in a little over a week and is one of my favorite quilts. I made this quilt mainly to see how fast I could make a very nice looking king-sized quilt, if I doubled the size of the pieces. It is of particular interest to the quilter because once pieced together the design often looks like a quilting impossibility and it takes time to work out how it was done.” The quilt above is a good example, a quilt I call “Lime Pie” and which got its inspiration from the quilt on the cover of Porter’s book.Ī closeup of the quilt shows how easily it is put together, however, it does look almost impossible to piece before you study it up close. According to Christine Porter, who literally wrote the book on the subject (“Tessellation Quilts”), “a tessellated pattern is one that interlocks, creating identical positive and negative spaces that can go on indefinitely. I’ve always been fascinated by tessellation quilts. ![]()
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