Decorating with Handmade Ceramic Tiles

If you are in a market for handmade ceramic tiles, Mexico may be your best source. Why don't you browse Rustica large selection of floor, relief and  kitchen wall tiles and see for your self? We are Mexico based company. The category includes outdoor pool, backsplash and flooring. We produce them from porcelain, cantera stone and talavera often used for decorating colonial, Spanish homes and hacienda residences. The beauty of handmade "azulejos" from Mexico is their application in both modern and antique spaces. After all, the purpose of using them is adding rustic character to the space and not entirely changing it what is also possible when shopping our outlet online.

Handmade Relief, Talavera and Floor Tiles

Our collection consists of handmade style falling into a few subcategories. Those are relief tiles,  talavera wall tiles and ceramic floor pavers. The first characterizes with multidimensional patterns achieved by pouring paint over tile the way it is elevated. Quite a unique effect but also pretty expensive to produce. Each tile is painted piece by piece with no possibility of implementing automation with minimum degree the production process. Other collection is rustic talavera. They are made primary in Dolores Hidalgo from three different clay. Two of them are found locally and the third one is brought from state of San Luis Potosi. Once they mixed together and dried on Sun they become red clay with reddish tones. The last group covers handmade floor tiles that are elaborated from similar to the talavera material. Contrary to rustic wall shape that is square and sometimes rectangular, flooring comes octagonal that can be installed with inserts 2x2 or 4x4 inches in size. Those can be fabricated from the same clay often used in colonial architecture.

Decorating with Handmade Tiles

Handcrafted ceramic can be used in kitchens, bathroom, living rooms, dining rooms, patios and verandas. It creates warm and inviting atmosphere and any machine printed product is no match to artisan art. Some of them like for example high relief ceramics are produced from porcelain. It makes them much stronger allowing  decorating with them floors and stair risers outdoors even in cold climate.

May surprise many that those glazed wall ceramic tiles are water resistant. Beside floor type, they can be used in wet even submerged areas such as swimming pools, saunas and showers. The choice you are going to make depends on your budget and architectural concept all together. While some of them are not that expensive relief painted style are not. It is due to the time consuming procedure while decorating each piece. We can use any design for  bathroom talavera sinks that are fabricated by hand as round, oval and rectangular.

Custom Made Ceramic Tiles

We have ability to manufacture custom made when the colors are concerned. In case of such orders, we require certain quantity. Otherwise, painting them is not going to be feasible. We strongly suggest getting in touch with us prior to ordering larger number of merchandise so we can advice estimated delivery cost and time frame.

Use our hand painted ceramic tiles for entire backsplash, kitchen walls, bathrooms or just as  accents between ceramics you purchased from other sources.