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Well, sort of. The depth and richness of our surfaces actually starts with a subtle texture that is embossed into the wet porcelain clay tile. This texture has to be pressed into each individual tile, one at a time. 
After the embossed tiles are dried and fired one time, they are glazed with one of our six glaze colors. As you can see from the picture above, the liquid glaze is ladled onto the surface of the embossed tile, temporarily filling in, and obscuring the embossed texture. When the tiles are fired in the kiln to temperatures exceeding 2300 degrees Fahrenheit, the glaze melts into a thick, honey like viscosity, receding from the high points of the texture and pooling in the recesses. 
The result is an image where the value contrast is actually achieved by varying thicknesses of the singled colored glaze. It’s like looking at the Caribbean Ocean from above, the water is lighter next to the beach where it is shallow, but darker as the depth increases.
Our glazes are formulated and mixed based on years of research and testing. Raw materials such as feldspar, quartz and calcium are combined with oxides such as copper and cobalt to create a color palette that is literally, straight from the earth.
