Tile is a one face glazed coating substance which is decorated with coloured patterns and decals. Underglaze technique is used while making our tiles. It is beleived that tile art has been started in the Middle East and from there moved to Anatolia and to Europe. Asur, Iran, Middle East Turks and Egyptians have used tiles-which is a branch of Fine Arts now - to decorate buildings and inscriptions. At the ages of Selcuklu and Ottoman Empire, in some places in Anatolia tile production have been made. So many tile samples from the ages of Selcuklu Empire glazed in firuze (turquoise), gren, cobalt blue, Brown and transparent colors can be seen.
It is very amazing improvement of the technique –in the 16th century- to apply these seven colors under glaze : turquoise, blue, a kind of dark green, red, light cobalt, white and sometimes black
History of the Tile
Human being began using tiles BC3000 where they live and what they use.
Muslim people began using tiles by AC900.
After the Malazgirt victoryin 1071 Anatolia became the center of Tile.