Raised line tile made one at a time.
We make our raised line tile in a 1922 farmhouse studio just off Cane Creek in Alamance County, North Carolina.
Raised line tile is a tradition rooted in Victorian England and the American Arts and Crafts movement of the late 19th and early 20th century,. It was championed by studios and tilemakers on both sides of the Atlantic who believed that beauty and utility belonged together.
The raised line divides glaze colors the way lead divides glass in a stained window. Glazes pool in the recesses, deepening where it collects. No two tiles are ever exactly the same. You feel the design in the topography before you see it — it’s the kind of tile that rewards close attention. The more you look the more you see.
Handmade tiles connect a modern home to a bygone craft tradition. They help contribute to the architect and builders story of a house and now the people who live there.
North Carolina has always been a place where people make beautiful things — pottery, textile, woodworking. We make the kind of lugjurious handmade tiles made more than a century ago. We think we Cane Creek tile belongs in that tradition.
Hand Pressed and Made in North Carolina
Not printed. Hand Made.
There is a difference between a tile that was printed and a tile that is hand made. Cane Creek tiles are press molded by hand into plaster molds, trimmed, dried for three days, bisque fired, glazed by hand from a palette of 34 studio-mixed colors, and fired again to cone 6.
The designs draw on the decorative traditions of the Victorian era and the organic, flowing forms of Art Nouveau — made to endure and to be noticed.
How each tile is made →
THE COLLECTION
Stand alone or panel raised line art tile.
2–4 colorways each · All 6×6 inches · $75–$85 per art tile · $35 for field tile. All tiles are hand pressed and glazed by hand, colors are mixed in our studio from raw oxides or stains ·
Thoughtfully crafted to elevate what matters most.
