Interesting - The very first tile?

[Dan the Man]

OK,

lets see who can find any information about the very first tile intended for wall or floor tiling!

LOL - should be fun :-p

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[Dan the Man]

After setting what I thought was a task that should have took a few hours MAX I have searched the internet for ages and cant find a damn thing lol.

I will continue my research as soon as I am in work tomorrow morning and reply tomorrow night should I find anything.

Its me all over to set such a damned hard task. As usual...:mad:

[flatfloor]

Historically, the use of ceramic floor tiles goes back to the fourth millennium B.C. in the Near and Far East.

The Romans introduced tile-making in Western Europe as they occupied territories. However, that art was eventually forgotten in Europe for centuries until the 12th century when Cistercian monks developed a method of making encaustic floor tiles with inlaid patterns for cathedral and church floors. But, this skill was again lost in the 16th century following the Reformation.

St Brendan the Boisterous, an Irish monk and discoverer of America, rediscovered the art in the latter part of the 16th century and brought the process to the new world on one of his later voyages. Many fine examples of the art have been found in the cave dwellings of the Fugawe Indians in N'east Louisiana. Unfortunately many of these historical works were destroyed by early settlers since they were quite erotic in nature.

Except for finely decorated wall tiles made in Turkey and the Middle East, and Delft tiles made in Holland in the 17th century, ceramic floor tiles were not made again in Europe until almost the mid-19th century.

[Dan the Man]

LOL,

I don't think anybody can prove you otherwise so I think you have killed this topic off with 1 reply my friend..

....well done lol