Tanglebank Tiles

06/06/2026

Thank you Tring Tiles 😁 My interpretation of one of the 14th century tiles found at Tring church during Victorian renovations

This Fine Art Ceramics item is sold by TanglebankTiles. Dispatched from United Kingdom. Listed on 06 Jun, 2026

15/05/2026

I'm not taking part this year, but please get out and support PAOS 2026 😊 Lots of great artists and craftspeople

02/05/2026

Tanglebank Tiles, back at Hovingham Village Market, today 2nd May 😁

08/04/2026

Tanglebank Tiles are back with some new designs for 2026. This mediaeval traveller's idea of an elephant is from a manuscript in the Dutch Royal Library

In my Etsy shoppe

www.tanglebank.co.uk

24/02/2026

Etsy have been mucking around with price displays, so to make everything clearer I've now included the shipping cost in the item price, with nothing extra to pay for delivery. So though it looks like my prices have gone up, they haven't - you're now seeing the total cost up front

Meanwhile there are loads of mediaeval designs to choose from, all hand made, hand decorated and fired in a kiln by me. New designs will follow in the Spring (which doesn't feel so far away now :-) )

31/12/2025

Is this the Region, this the Soil, the Clime,
Said then the lost Arch-Angel, this the seat
That we must change for Heav’n, this mournful gloom
For that celestial light? Be it so, since he
Who now is Sovran can dispose and bid
What shall be right: fardest from him is best
Whom reason hath equald, force hath made supream
Above his equals. Farewel happy Fields
Where Joy for ever dwells: Hail horrours, hail
Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell
Receive thy new Possessor: One who brings
A mind not to be chang’d by Place or Time.
The mind is its own place, and in it self
Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n.
What matter where, if I be still the same,
And what I should be, all but less then he
Whom Thunder hath made greater? Here at least
We shall be free; th’ Almighty hath not built
Here for his envy, will not drive us hence:
Here we may reign secure, and in my choyce
To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav’n.
But wherefore let we then our faithful friends,
Th’ associates and copartners of our loss
Lye thus astonisht on th’ oblivious Pool,
And call them not to share with us their part
In this unhappy Mansion, or once more
With rallied Arms to try what may be yet
Regaind in Heav’n, or what more lost in Hell?

(John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I, Lines 221–270)

Tiles now installed as a frieze in my own home

25/12/2025

A Merry Yuletide to all, from Tanglebank Tiles

19/12/2025

Gryphon, Griffin, Griffon 🤔however you want to spell it 😁 This is a rendition of a tile from Notley Abbey, recorded by Loyd Haberly in his 1937 book "English Mediaeval Paving Tiles"

One only available from my Etsy shoppe

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4412376599/

14/12/2025

The King of the Cats - My version of a popular image from the German Scheibler'sches Wappenbuch, circa 1450. This is the last of this mediaeval style terracotta tile, available now from my Etsy shoppe

https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/TanglebankTiles

06/12/2025

All set up at The Hovingham Village Market. Last chance to see TanglebankTiles at a craft fair this year. So far it's dry 😁