English tilers

Fülszöveg

MEDIEVAL CRAFTSMEN ENGLISH TILERS
Brightly coloured tiles, often decorated with enchanting scenes or designs, are among the most common and fascinating survivals from the medieval period. When decorated floor tiles were first introduced, tilers were specially commissioned to create elaborate pavements for wealthy, royal and ecclesiastical patrons. Before long, individual tilers branched out to manufacture decorated tiles and market them commercially. Soon, manor houses, merchants' houses and parish churches were enlivened with these colourful decorated floors.
Drawing partly on the material from her previous book English Medieval Tiles (now out of print) and partly on new research, the author explains how the tiles were made and decorated, how the tilers combined the production of elaborate floor tiles with plainer, more functional roof tiles, and how they earned their living.
Elizabeth Eames, who is an extra-mural lecturer in British Archaeology at the University of London, is... Tovább

Fülszöveg

MEDIEVAL CRAFTSMEN ENGLISH TILERS
Brightly coloured tiles, often decorated with enchanting scenes or designs, are among the most common and fascinating survivals from the medieval period. When decorated floor tiles were first introduced, tilers were specially commissioned to create elaborate pavements for wealthy, royal and ecclesiastical patrons. Before long, individual tilers branched out to manufacture decorated tiles and market them commercially. Soon, manor houses, merchants' houses and parish churches were enlivened with these colourful decorated floors.
Drawing partly on the material from her previous book English Medieval Tiles (now out of print) and partly on new research, the author explains how the tiles were made and decorated, how the tilers combined the production of elaborate floor tiles with plainer, more functional roof tiles, and how they earned their living.
Elizabeth Eames, who is an extra-mural lecturer in British Archaeology at the University of London, is the author of the British Museum's definitive Catalogue of English Medieval Tiles. With 43 colour and 41 black and white illustrations Titles in this series Armourers
matthias pfaffenbichler
Embroiderers
kay staniland
English Tilers
elizabeth eames
Glass-painters
sarah brown david o'connor
BRITISH MUSEUM PRESS
Goldsmiths
john cherry
Masons and Sculptors
nicola coldstream
Painters
paul binski
Scribes and Illuminators
christopher de hamel Vissza