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tulip
Citizen
Username: Braveheart
Post Number: 3521
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, May 21, 2006 - 6:13 pm: | 
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Just came back from a Moravian Tile festival. Really neat. If you like colorful, interesting and different tiles for your table or your wall, historic Moravian tiles have been made in a Moravian Pottery for over one hundred years in Doylestown, PA.
Follow 78 west to Easton, PA, just over the NJ/PA line. Take 611 South to Doylestown, a good 15 or 18 miles. When you come to the sign for route 313, also called "Swamp Road," bear left at the proverbial fork in the road, then turn left onto 313 and go about a short distance down Swamp Road and this odd looking pottery with ten or so smokestacks and a roof that could have been thatched off to the right, and a sign for the Moravian Tile Works, is there, beyond a lovely lawn. It's fascinating if you like things made of clay. They have tours, and this weekend they had a festival with tile makers from several states around. They had historic tiles, Delft tiles, English floral tiles, panels, hand-made tiles by exhibiting artists, a real tile bonanza, if you like that sort of thing.
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kmk
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Username: Kmk
Post Number: 1264
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, May 21, 2006 - 7:37 pm: |
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We did our powder room in Moravian Tiles!
I managed to get their "museum" folks up to South Orange because there is a house on Ridgewood Road with some spectacular Morivian Tile artwork.
We considered buying the house when it was on the market...an Asian family lived there. The walls in almost every room were completely covered in lovely tatami mat type material and other woven bamboo papers.
In the "sunroom" was a lovely fireplace but the wallpaper over it was not laying flat...it hung loose. I lifted it to see what it was covering and I saw a 24" round glazed tile roundel. Unbelievably beautiful. I came home an did my research and BINGO the house was full of all sorts of stuff. Even the exterior has Moravian Tile insets that had been covered by bushes.
When they came out to install our powder room floor they brought cameras and tape measures and fully documented the South Orange treasure! |
tulip
Citizen
Username: Braveheart
Post Number: 3526
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, May 21, 2006 - 9:00 pm: |
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Those tiles might be very valuable. The architecture of some of the houses in Maplewood seems to be a natural for Moravian tiles. They have rich, dark colors and beautiful detail. In any case, their pottery in Doylestown is fascinating. You can see the tiles actually being made, and the tile maker tells you how he makes the tiles as he makes them. They give classes in tilemaking there, as well. Really exciting.
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