Handmade Tile
Here at Cane Creek Tile Co. we make Arts & Crafts, Art Nouveau, and Victorian tile in a commerical studio attached to our 1922 farmhouse in Alamance County, North Carolina. We make handmade tile, the way it was made 100 years ago. We mix the clay and make the glazes, we press the tile in plaster molds and decorate each tile before the firing. Raised lines divide glaze colors the way lead divides colored glass. Glaze pools in the recesses, deepening the colors as it collects. You can feel the design as you see it — and the surface rewards close attention.
Raised-line tile is rooted in Victorian England and the American Arts and Crafts movement — championed by studios on both sides of the Atlantic, they believed that beauty and utility belonged together in the design process.
North Carolina has always been a place where people make beautiful things — pottery, furniture, textiles. Cane Creek Tile Co. is part of 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.
