What are Tessellating tiles?
What are Tessellating tiles?
Tessellated tiles are loose tiles in different shapes, sizes and colours that are laid in a geometric pattern to create a tessellated floor.
What do you use tessellation for?
Such tilings may be decorative patterns, or may have functions such as providing durable and water-resistant pavement, floor or wall coverings. Historically, tessellations were used in Ancient Rome and in Islamic art such as in the Moroccan architecture and decorative geometric tiling of the Alhambra palace.
What is a tessellated floor?
Tessellated floors are formed from tiles of varying size, shape and colour that fit together to produce a geometric repetitive pattern. Suitable for heritage & traditional settings, simple patterns can also be created for use in more modern and contemporary styles.
What are tessellated tiles made of?
porcelain tiles
Tessellated tiles are ceramic or porcelain tiles meant to be pieced together to form a geometric pattern. Smaller tiles may be netted together, but most tessellated tiles are loose and meant to be laid individually to account for small fluctuations in the installation surface.
What does the vertex arrangement 3.6 3.6 mean?
Each semi-regular tessellation is named for the number of sides of the shapes surrounding each vertex. For example, for the first tiling below, each vertex is composed of the point of a triangle (3 sides), a hexagon (6), another triangle (3) and another hexagon (6), so it is called 3.6. 3.6.
What are Tessellating patterns?
A tessellation is created when a shape is repeated over and over again covering a plane without any gaps or overlaps. Another word for a tessellation is a tiling.
What is a regular Tessellating pattern?
Regular tessellations are tile patterns made up of only one single shape placed in some kind of pattern. There are three types of regular tessellations: triangles, squares and hexagons. Regular tessellations have interior angles that are divisors of 360 degrees.
How thick are tessellated tiles?
7mm
Tile thickness – 7mm. Renditions range of porcelain tessellated tiles are suitable for all internal and external residential application as well as for commercial application.
How do you restore tessellated tiles?
How Do you Restore Tessellated Tiles?
- Remove Any Loose Tiles.
- Clean Up the Area Before You Start.
- Use Glue Re-Affix the Loose Tile.
- Use Epoxy Putty or Wood Filler to Repair Chips.
- Scrape Away Paint Splashes.
- Remove Ingrained Dirt from Tile.
- Consider Whether you Need to Apply Sealer.
- Buff Up Floor to a Soft Sheen.
Do tessellated tiles need to be sealed?
Sealing of our (Winckelmans Range) is optional and will provide an additional layer of protection – if you choose to do so, we recommend our Waterproof Sealant Stain Resistant Sealer or any other penetrating sealer.
Do you seal tessellated tiles?
Tessellated Tiles – Cleaning & Maintenance Renditions range of vitrified porcelain tiles have been sealed in the factory prior to firing in the kiln therefore no further sealing is required after installation.
