Our ceramic studio-shop is in Barcelona, Spain and we decorate tiles by hand using the Majolica method.

What makes the Majolica method different is that glaze-base and the decoration are fired together. The clay is fired to 600 C. or more and changes it into a ceramic material that is solid, breakable but still porous and is know as bisque. For the second firing the bisque pieces are covered with a lair of a white opaque glaze-base of tin oxide and then decorated with Metallic oxide glaze colors. Finally, the glaze-base and decoration are fired together to vitrify at 980 C. The vitrifying makes the glaze-base an opaque lair of glass and this stops the bisque being porous and the result is a brightly colored, glossy surface that maintains and enhances the lines, colors and quality of the decoration.

In our new web there are two parts one is our catalog which is in English, Catalan and Spanish. It is in sections showing our Set Designs, Private Designs and how to frame tiles.

Private designs are special orders to fulfill the requirements of a client. We work in collaboration with architects and interior decorators, to create names, decorations for shops, restaurants, entrances of buildings and private houses, in accordance with the wishes of the client to affect a good design artistically and technically.

The second part is a Ceramic Dictionary, at the moment it is only in English but I hope to have it in Catalan and Spanish, it does not only define words but also explains methods of working. It will have as many illustrations as possible, drawings and photos, to make the by lingual understanding easier. As an example take the beautiful word ?squeegee? I have found the word in Webster´s but no where have I found a translation of it, with an illustration it will be understandable in every language.

A dictionary is never finished there are hundreds of words that are missing, please help me, go into my web, find out what is missing and let me know.