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Original Style named this glaze after jet, the fossilised wood worked at Whitby and the black material of choice in Victorian jewellery, and their own account of it is the right place to start: their darkest glaze recalls the bottomless depth and clarity of polished jet, and the planes and contours of each tile and moulding are brought to life by deep reflections, in a constant dance of light and shade. That last point is the whole of it. This is not a black that swallows light — it is opaque and mirror-glossy, and it throws the window, the lamp and the metalwork straight back into the room.
Thirty-two shapes are stocked here in Jet Black, which is the fullest list we carry in any single Artworks colour. The flat formats run from the Field Tile and Half Tile through the Large Brick, both bevelled metros and the 152 x 25mm Rectangle slip. The trims cover a Skirting Tile, a Plain Cornice, both an External and an Internal Corner Trim, and the Rounded Edge Long and Short. Then ten mouldings, six handed corner pieces in left and right hands, and four wrapping pieces for full-tile and half-tile coursing.
Because a scheme can turn every corner and close every edge in one glaze, without a single site mitre or cut edge showing. That is worth more on a reflective black than on anything else we sell: a cut edge exposes the pale biscuit beneath the glaze and reads as a bright line, and a mitre on a gloss surface catches the light along its whole length. The handed corners and the wrapping pieces exist precisely so that neither happens.
On a carved profile in a mirror-gloss black, what animates the ornament is not a change in the colour of the glaze but a highlight travelling along the section as you move. It slides down an ogee, breaks across the blocks of a dentil and doubles back on the twist of a rope. It is the reason the range makes ten separate mouldings in this colour, and the reason the deep-cut ones — the Victoria, the Egg & Dart and the Dentil — repay the money most.
Here the joint settles one question: whether you want a reflective plane or a black grid. A dark grout close to the tile lets the wall read as one unbroken sheet, which is what makes the reflection work and leaves the mouldings to do the drawing. A brilliant white joint gives the opposite and equally traditional result — the hard graphic black-and-white, every tile a separate square. Choose white deliberately, and only where the setting-out is accurate, because nothing hides. A mid grey is the tone to leave alone. Whichever you pick, sponge thoroughly while the grout is damp: haze shows more on a deep gloss black than on any other glaze.
Two pieces we do not keep on the shelf. Original Style make the Round Edge External in Jet Black to order only, subject to a minimum quantity and a manufacturing lead time, and they list a Metro Bevelled Corner in this colour which we can order in for you. Tell us early which your setting-out needs and we will price them and give you a realistic date.
Cut samples are free to collect from our Ascot showroom, or posted to you for the cost of postage. Delivery is free on UK orders over £1,000. Call the team on 01344 620211, or come and see the range at 67 High Street, Ascot.
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Original Style named this glaze after jet, the fossilised wood worked at Whitby and the black material of choice in Victorian jewellery, and their own account of it is the right place to start: their darkest glaze recalls the bottomless depth and clarity of polished jet, and the planes and contours of each tile and moulding are brought to life by deep reflections, in a constant dance of light and shade. That last point is the whole of it. This is not a black that swallows light — it is opaque and mirror-glossy, and it throws the window, the lamp and the metalwork straight back into the room.
Thirty-two shapes are stocked here in Jet Black, which is the fullest list we carry in any single Artworks colour. The flat formats run from the Field Tile and Half Tile through the Large Brick, both bevelled metros and the 152 x 25mm Rectangle slip. The trims cover a Skirting Tile, a Plain Cornice, both an External and an Internal Corner Trim, and the Rounded Edge Long and Short. Then ten mouldings, six handed corner pieces in left and right hands, and four wrapping pieces for full-tile and half-tile coursing.
Because a scheme can turn every corner and close every edge in one glaze, without a single site mitre or cut edge showing. That is worth more on a reflective black than on anything else we sell: a cut edge exposes the pale biscuit beneath the glaze and reads as a bright line, and a mitre on a gloss surface catches the light along its whole length. The handed corners and the wrapping pieces exist precisely so that neither happens.
On a carved profile in a mirror-gloss black, what animates the ornament is not a change in the colour of the glaze but a highlight travelling along the section as you move. It slides down an ogee, breaks across the blocks of a dentil and doubles back on the twist of a rope. It is the reason the range makes ten separate mouldings in this colour, and the reason the deep-cut ones — the Victoria, the Egg & Dart and the Dentil — repay the money most.
Here the joint settles one question: whether you want a reflective plane or a black grid. A dark grout close to the tile lets the wall read as one unbroken sheet, which is what makes the reflection work and leaves the mouldings to do the drawing. A brilliant white joint gives the opposite and equally traditional result — the hard graphic black-and-white, every tile a separate square. Choose white deliberately, and only where the setting-out is accurate, because nothing hides. A mid grey is the tone to leave alone. Whichever you pick, sponge thoroughly while the grout is damp: haze shows more on a deep gloss black than on any other glaze.
Two pieces we do not keep on the shelf. Original Style make the Round Edge External in Jet Black to order only, subject to a minimum quantity and a manufacturing lead time, and they list a Metro Bevelled Corner in this colour which we can order in for you. Tell us early which your setting-out needs and we will price them and give you a realistic date.
Cut samples are free to collect from our Ascot showroom, or posted to you for the cost of postage. Delivery is free on UK orders over £1,000. Call the team on 01344 620211, or come and see the range at 67 High Street, Ascot.
Explore more: black tiles · wall tiles · bathroom tiles
Part of the curated Hyperion Tiles collection — our handpicked premium range.
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