The gingham tile pattern, inspired by the checked fabric of picnic blankets and vintage tablecloths, can give any kitchen a touch of old-school beauty with a fresh twist.

While small patterns can make a huge impact on your space, tiny tiles are difficult to install. To get around this downside, discover the micro-patterns trend.

In the world of decorative tile, plant- and flower-inspired motifs are making a big comeback this spring—and we couldn’t be happier to see them. A water-jet tile-cutter can create intricate botanical ...

Bloom also suggested that I might instead use tile decals for my project. Made of vinyl, these lay directly over existing tiles and don’t require mapping out a new tile pattern or grouting edges.

WASHINGTON - Those wondrously intricate tile mosaics that adorn medieval Islamic architecture may cloak a mastery of geometry not matched in the West for hundreds of years.

Girih pattern from the Seljuk Mama Hatun Mausoleum in Tercan, Turkey (about AD 1200), with girih-tile reconstruction overlaid at bottom Girih strapwork pattern on an interior archway in the Sultan ...

Cle Tile, based in San Rafael, California, has several artists’ collections of handmade encaustic tile, ranging from modern takes on Old West patterns, to midcentury graphics.

After half a century, mathematicians succeed in finding an ‘einstein,’ a shape that forms a tiled pattern that never repeats.

Chemists identify a single molecule that naturally tiles in nonrepeating patterns, which could help build materials with novel electronic properties.

At Long Last, Mathematicians Have Found a Shape With a Pattern That Never Repeats Experts have searched for decades for a polygon that only makes non-repeating patterns. But no one knew it was ...