Blue Hand-Painted Ceramic Tiles

Blue hand-painted ceramic tile with gloss brushstroke finish

Blue Brushstroke • Gloss Tile

13x13 cm • Box of 50 units

€356,95

Blue Brushstroke • Gloss Tile

€356,95

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• Hand-painted in Spain • Terracotta Tile • Waterproof • Mold resistant • Moisture resistant • 1cm thick • 13x13cm or 15x15cm available

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Hand-painted blue ceramic tiles, made individually in Spain with expressive cobalt-blue brushstrokes and a gloss finish. Each tile carries natural variations in colour, surface and brushwork, so no two are identical.

The wall becomes part of the room.

Made by hand in Manises, Spain, using terracotta clay. Organic edges and visible brushstrokes give each installation a softer, less uniform character than industrial tiles.

Suitable for kitchen splashbacks, bathroom walls, fireplace surrounds and decorative interior walls.

Available as a single sample or in boxes of 50 tiles.

13 × 13 cm · 50 tiles cover approximately 0.7 m²
15 × 15 cm · 50 tiles cover approximately 1 m²

1 cm thick · Gloss finish · Surface mounted · Waterproof · Moisture resistant · Mould resistant · Heat resistant

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15 x 15 cm size, and 1 cm thickness.
Handmade and hand-painted in Spain.
Clean with a soft cloth and pH‑neutral cleaner; avoid abrasives and strong chemicals to preserve the glaze.

DELIVERY 

All orders dispatched within 5 working days

  United Kingdom
 • Costs (All sizes)
- 1 sample: £4.50
- Box of 40 units: £42.50
• Free UK delivery on orders over £150.00

  Europe 
• Costs (All sizes)
- 1 sample: £8.50
- Box of 40 units: £55.00

USA & Canada
• Costs (All sizes)
- 1 sample: £18.00
- Box of 40 units: £100.00 

RETURNS 
• You have 30 days from delivery to return anything, for any reason. Email team@cardoonstudio.com with your order number and we'll take it from there.  
• If something arrived faulty or not as described, we'll refund your delivery charge too.   

REFUNDS
 • Processed within 10 days of receiving your return, back to your original payment method.

Available in 13 cm or 15 cm size • 1 cm thickness.

For generations, Manises was not a town that made ceramics. It was a town made by ceramics. The workshops defined the rhythm of daily life: who worked, what they learned, how they spent their time, who they married. Entire families organised themselves around the kiln. Fathers passed mineral knowledge to their children not as a trade secret but as a shared language, the way you know the streets of the place you grew up in.

That knowledge shaped the physical town too. House facades were covered in leftover tiles. Street names recorded the workshops that once lined them. The local festival still throws ceramic pieces from floats into the crowd, a ritual that turns the object of labour into an act of collective joy. The town did not just produce ceramics. It expressed itself through them.

What is at stake now is not the survival of a technique but the survival of a way of life built around it. The workshops that remain are not museums. They are living workplaces where the connection between earth, hand, colour, and imagination still holds. A UNESCO Creative City, Manises is trying to carry that forward: not by preserving the past but by finding new reasons for the craft to exist in the present, and new hands willing to keep it going.

Terracotta clay from Manises, shaped and painted by hand. The same hands, the same techniques, practised in this town outside Valencia for over a hundred years.

The glaze is applied by brush, colour by colour. No two tiles come out identical. The edges shift slightly, the tone deepens or lifts depending on where it sat in the kiln. This is not inconsistency. It is the record of how it was made.

Fired at high temperature, the glaze fuses to the body. What remains is waterproof, mould resistant, and hard enough to outlast the wall it's mounted on.

Manises has been the centre of Spanish ceramic tradition since the 14th century. The craft never left. It just stopped being noticed. These tiles bring it back into rooms that are lived in.

Email team@cardoonstudio.com to discuss what you have in mind.

A hand holding a paintbrush applies blue floral detailing to a set of white ceramic tiles mounted on a rustic wooden panel.

MADE SLOWLY, BY HAND.

Each tile is shaped, glazed and finished by specialist makers, using techniques refined through generations. The marks of the hand remain visible, giving every surface its own character.

A stack of star-shaped ceramic coasters with a white center and a dark blue border, set on a gray concrete floor against a light gray wall.

CLAY, GLAZE AND COLOUR.

We choose natural clays and expressive glazes for their depth, texture and response to light. Small variations in tone, surface and finish are intentional, no two tiles are exactly alike.

A pottery workshop filled with stacks of ceramic tiles, molds, and handmade pottery on shelves and worktables. Sunlight streams across the floor, illuminating the clay products in a rustic indoor setting.

ROOTED IN MANISES.

Our tiles are made in Manises (Spain), a city shaped by centuries of ceramic making. Its community keeps the knowledge and human touch of this remarkable ceramic tradition alive.