We further found out that during the East Indies era, many buildings used hand-pressed cement tile or we often called it as 'tegel'. The variety of colour was plenty. The finishing was normaly made sheen. It was possible to make these beautiful cement tiles during that era because the Dutch imported the raw materials (like colouring chemical, special cement, etc) from Netherlands and allow the Inlanders (local people) to produce the tiles to decorate the buildings that the Dutch constructed.
Nowadays, the producer of such tiles is very limited as most of cement tiles producers closed down its manufacturing due to the massive invasion of ceramic tiles. There is only one or two manufacturing in Yogyakarta area who keep producing the cement tiles. They make cement tiles based on the patterns of antique tiles and reproduce them in vast choice of colours that customer can choose from.
hi, i'm very interesting in your photos about those antique tiles. Could I know where you taken all of it, especially the third one? Actually I'm searching on these materials to write it down in my thesis. Thanks a lot.
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