Handmade Ceramic Mediterranean Blue Matte Tile

Mediterranean Blue • Matte Tile

13 cm • Sample

£8.75

SELECT SIZE & QUANTITY 13 cm • Sample 15 cm • Sample 13 cm • Box of 20 units 15 cm • Box of 20 units 13 cm • Box of 40 units 15 cm • Box of 40 units

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The wall becomes part of the room.

Hand-painted in Spain, each tile carries the quiet irregularity of something made by hand. Organic edges, a matte Mediterranean blue that shifts with the light. Lay them close, leave them breathing. Either way, the surface feels considered.

Available as a sample, in sets of 20 or 40, or for special projects, reach out at team@cardoonstudio.com

Waterproof & mould resistant · 13 × 13cm or 15 × 15cm · 1.4cm thick · Surface mount.

Available in 13 cm or 15 cm size • 1.4 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.

One tile changes a corner. Twenty tiles change a room. They work on a kitchen splashback, around a bathroom mirror, or framed as a single object on a shelf. The matte olive glaze sits quietly next to natural materials: stone, linen, raw wood. Without competing with them. Use them in a regular pattern for something calm and deliberate, or break the grid for something that feels more collected over time. They ask to be placed somewhere with light. Morning sun will find the variation in the glaze. Evening light will flatten it into something softer.

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.