Green Glossy Zellige Tiles 4×4

A glossy green zellige tile at 4×4, handmade in the Moroccan manner so that no two pieces come out identical. Sixty pieces fill a box covering 6.67 square feet.

Colour over an uneven face

Zellige is shaped and glazed by hand, and the glaze pools differently across each piece depending on how it was dipped and fired. Green shows that better than most colours because it holds a wide range of tone between light and dark. What results is a surface that shifts constantly across an area rather than reading as one flat colour. Bodies are 3/8 inch and the style is recorded as classic. Sixty pieces to a box also means a small area can be covered from one box, with enough spare to replace a breakage later from the same firing.

• Glaze pools Thickness varies across each piece, which changes the depth of colour.
• Constant shift The surface moves across an area instead of reading flat.

Shower floors

Shower floors is the recorded rating, kitchen the noted room. Eleven boxes cover 60 square feet with cutting counted. Handmade pieces vary in size as well as colour, so a setter needs to work with the variation rather than force it into a rigid grid, and grout joints usually end up slightly wider than with machine made tile.

• Eleven boxes 6.67 square feet a box across 60 square feet.
• Wider joints Irregular pieces need a joint that can absorb the difference.

Why we chose it

• Depth of colour Pooled glaze gives green a range no printed tile matches.
• Genuinely handmade Every piece differs, which is the reason to choose it.
• No sealing The glaze protects the body beneath it.

Care

A household tile cleaner and a soft cloth. An uneven glaze holds a little more in its hollows, so rinsing properly matters more than scrubbing harder.