Immortelles
The nice guys from Symmetry Tile Works were back at the corner crafts fair, so I treated myself to two more tiles in their Queen Anne's lace series. The weeds come from a local horse farm. The artists press them into the clay with a rolling pin--those are all real silhouettes--pick them out again, sprinkle the slab thickly with pulverized bottle glass, and fire at 2350º F. If you like, you can bring them flowers from your own garden, and do your bathroom up in lost summers. They also do sea-themes (shells, sea-horses), and animals--they joke that the pygmy elephants from off the coast of Madagascar put up a tremendous fight.
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