That web site seems to be for a restaurant. ?????? concrete tiles sound interesting though.
Laura

Oh! Yes, maybe. . . it's a pretty irritating site, but I thought it was all about stuff to purchase, . . . . art & fabrics; but maybe you're right - stuff to purchase for restaurants etc!

What about the tiles though?

Claire, The web site is for a restaurant in California. Nothing there but info for the restaurant.
Can you post a picture? Billie

Here is the website,
If you get to the site, check out the press icon at the lower right with Eileen Elliot for the best pic of the tiles.

Here is a link that might be useful: Eileen Elliot concrete tiles

Hi again,
the link takes you to the site, click on Main site then use the icons at the bottom.
Dena
The tiles do appear to be pieced together sections more in a crazy pattern of an old vintage persian rug

Rats! I can get to the site but the link buttons at the bottom, including "Press" don't seem to work. I'd really like to see these! Can anyone publish the actual URL for the page with Ms. Elliot's work here...please?

I plan on going out and getting the H&G magazine as soon as "Rita" gets out of here. GlubGlub

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Thanks for the link, Dena. The only tiles I can find are supposedly in one picture in colections - Paris. This site is so artistic I cannot tell what I am looking at. Is there a photo I am missing here?
Thanks, Laura

I found a picture I could sort-of see here - Fabric Design Sponsored by The World of Interiors
You would need to do a search for it and you get a pdf file
On page 8 there is a picture of the tiles. They are beautiful but I sure have no idea how they were done.
Laura

Laura
Go to main skip intro and find thetists name.
You can actually create your own floor using the tiles.
Very cool.

Click MAIN SITE
Skip Intro
Hover mouse over PRESS
Select Eileen Eliot and prepare to be amazed at the stuff you can do with Flash on this page.

I clicked the Âmain page" button but it dint give the option to "skip intro". What I had to do to view "Eileen Eliot" was after the intro was loaded, I right clicked and choose to "zoom in" then left clicked and held down the mouse and moved the entire flash image over, then place my mouse over "press" and THERE IT WAS ..lol of course I then "zoomed out".

Maybe there was another way but I was just about to give up.

Eileen Eliot was hidden on my screen otherwise.

Gorgeous tiles. wonder how theyÂre made?

I have some antique tiles very similar to these that make a pattern when placed together, like a rug. I always knew they were hand made of concrete but never figured out how they were made. You can see on the edge where the paint layer isÂI think the pigment is mixed with the concrete (I assume but donÂt know). Eileen Eliot probably uses the same technique whatever it isÂ.Eileen EliotÂs work is fantastic to say the least anyway.

Thanks for the link, I'm glad I didnt give up trying to get to her work.

That has got to be the world's most annoying website. I finally gave up and Googled "Eileen Eliott Concrete Tiles" and found something.

I think that each tile is idividually handpainted. So, using the correct paint for concrete, those of us who are not artisically challenged, could paint away. If not, I guess a stencil could be made from some patterns on an Oriental rug and then painted on a tile. The surface looked quite smooth in the pictures.

Any ideas? I am just guessing

I guess she painted them with some type of paints then used a modern heavy duty sealer...I thought at first she made them like my old ones, but I donÂt think so now. Mine are made with pigment mixed into the upper most 1/16th layer of concrete with no sealer.

You could make a stencil to get a uniform design, then hand paint the details, that may be what she did.

If you ask me, the website was unnecessarily complicated. I love great flash websites but they should have made an html option. I just wanted to see the tile.

LOL!
It isn't a website you want to visit often unless you have a very fast connection. I suspect the designer was on drugs.:)
The DIY floor creation tool was kinda cool.

It is a very irritating web site isn't it? And my apologies for getting it's address wrong at the very top of the page. Thanks for putting us right Dena.

In little write up in H&G it states "Elliot prints images of antique persian carpets on concrete then coats them with tough lacquer".

I think there are things you can do with images on paper, to lift the image off and put it onto something else, but I really don't know how to. . . . I've seen on the TV how to iron computer printed stuff off the paper and onto a piece of fabric.

Could it work with wet concrete perhaps?

I used to buy those cheap plastic dollies from the Dollar store and use them as stencils with spray paints and stains.
You could get some beautiful patterns with those.
Something like that might work on concrete.
In theory you could print directly to concrete.
I have a cheap little inkjet printer that prints lables directly on my CDs.
I suspect a large printer could be easily made to do the same on concrete.
That would be a cool gadget.

Well, I Googled it again, this time "how print images concrete". Some interesting stuff came up. There is a way to transfer pictures from your printer onto a transfer paper, and then onto a surface. There are many different surfaces this can be used on -- one example was marble. This may be how she did it. It looks like you can transfer the picture and leave it alone or touch it up with paint.

Hi Club
I'm going to add that to my list of stuff to try if I live so long.:)
I have plenty of ink jet transfer paper around here. My HP printer prints on big paper 13 x 19 inches.
I figure the concrete surface is going to have to be pretty smooth though. Maybe if I pour it on 6 mil poly. That leaves a very slick surface.
If I could get the Harley Davidson logo on stepping stones I have a neighbor who would love them.:)

Tufaenough thank you for pointing out how to "make a floor" on that web site, I hadn't found that before. The tiles are lovely.

Harley Davidson, now that's a thought for stepping stones!

I was just showing someone Eileen's tiles and realized you can Âright click and choose to Âzoom in a couple of times and see the tiles close up. First drag them over to the area where they auto enlarge. Anymore zooms than 2 make the image distorted though.

(turn audio volume down if the endlessly repeating music gets on your nerves, like it did mine :)

Hi Claire
I never had any idea how many manly men like this stuff until i started yapping about it down at my suppliers.
I have a single male friend who wants stepping stones that look like antique manhole covers.
I think HD concrete would be really popular with bikers.
Harley Davidson is pretty protective of their logos but if someone made a mold for Harley stepping stones they wouls sell really well...until you got caught.:)

Check out this concrete rug.

Here is a link that might be useful: {{gwi:74007}}

I typed "Skimstone" into google and found that their product opens a whole new vista. There a detailed instructions for very ambitious people to make oriental rugs, but I can see more modest uses. Mikitoo

I suspect when they say 'printing' that they mean something like silkscreen printing (on Missy Elliot's tiles ;-) ). I have transferred photocopied designs to metal in the past by placing the photocopy face down on the metal, then using acetone and pressure on the back of the paper to transfer the image. Haven't tried it with colour photocopies.

Doubt that the photocopy method would be light-fast outside, even with a lacquer on top.