{"id":1136,"date":"2015-02-18T09:30:31","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T15:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.villalagoontile.com\/blog\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2015-07-30T17:17:37","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T22:17:37","slug":"puerto-rican-cement-tile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.villalagoontile.com\/blog\/puerto-rican-cement-tile\/","title":{"rendered":"Puerto Rican Cement Tile"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cement tile has a rich and deep history in Puerto Rico.\u00a0We have\u00a0supplied our colorful cement tiles for residences and restaurants in Puerto Rico. We can also\u00a0recreate antique Puerto Rican cement tile\u00a0patterns\u00a0and deliver\u00a0to the\u00a0door in PR. \u00a0Just send us a photo or browse our existing tile patterns <\/a>and request a quote.<\/p>\n

Traditional floor designs made of cement tiles, \u201cLosa criolla\u201d (creole tile) or \u201closa isle\u00f1o\u201d (island tile), as they are called in Puerto Rico, are frequently\u00a0laid out like a carpet or rug with\u00a0a coordinating border just as a “Oriental”\u00a0\u00a0rug might.\"puerto-rican-cement-tile\"<\/p>\n

The technique for making decorative cement tiles was perfected in Europe about 50 years prior and quickly spread to Spanish colonies in the Americas, Asia, and Africa.<\/p>\n

A mold, cement, color pigments and water are used to produce tiles by compression in a hydraulic press. As we are always telling our callers, the tiles are not fired or glazed like ceramic tile. They are water and air cured.<\/p>\n

Many of the cement tiles now used in\u00a0Puerto Rico come from Villa Lagoon Tile. \u00a0We can arrange shipment of stock tile using several freight lines who have regular service in Puerto Rico. For larger orders, we can deliver a container directly from factory to the island’s ports.<\/p>\n

In Isabel II, Vieques take a look at the antique tile floors at the restaurant Conuco.\"Antique<\/a><\/p>\n

Villa Lagoon Tile can recreate antique Puerto Rican cement tiles and deliver\u00a0to your door. Just send us a photo or browse our existing tile patterns <\/a>and request a quote. We have supplied our colorful cement tiles for residences and restaurants in Puerto Rica.<\/p>\n

\"Cement\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0\"pirilo-restaurant-1-VLT\"<\/a> \"pirilo-restaurant-2-VLT\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Designer Sophie Aurelie\u00a0loves Villa Lagoon Tile’s encaustic cement tile (mosaicos hidraulicos) and uses them frequently in her restaurant plans.<\/p>\n

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Click & Buy this book for the pleasure of seeing hundreds of cement tile patterns from Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n

Hernan Moran, author of Puerto Rico Tile Designs, states that cement or hydraulic tiles were first introduced to Puerto Rico around 1900. They were\u00a0imported by ship from Barcelona, Spain.\u00a0 The Puerto Ricans\u00a0found the beautiful and practical\u00a0\u00a0cement tiles to be cooler and cleaner than the old colonial floors made of stone, coral, bricks or wood.\u00a0In Puerto Rica large numbers of homes and businesses built in the early part of the 20th century used cement tiles, not only for their durability but also for their cheerful\u00a0designs and colors.<\/p>\n

In the early 1060’s the popularity of hydraulic tiles in Puerto Rico started to drop as new flooring materials were introduced and poured terrazzo became vogue. In those days\u00a0\u00a0some of the cement tile manufacturers in Puerto Rico switched to producing \u201closetas del pais\u201d (terrazzo tiles) and concrete blocks.Many of the tiles in the public and historic buildings are native Puerto Rican designs.<\/p>\n

By the 1920\u2019s, there were at least five local companies that were manufacturing these native cement tiles in PR. \u00a0We read that\u00a0Parador Villa Parguera<\/a> in La Parguera, Lajas, on the southwest coast\u00a0was a school before it\u00a0\u00a0was a small hotel.\u00a0The school received donations of leftover tiles from the tile makers, so there is\u00a0an assortment of over 50 designs in their floors. See here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a><\/p>\n

Today the antique tiles have come to be appreciated again and there is a resurgence of interest.<\/p>\n

An example of new cement tile\u00a0\u00a0are the floors\u00a0through out the new El Blok hotel in Esperanza<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Cement tile has a rich and deep history in Puerto Rico.\u00a0We have\u00a0supplied our colorful cement tiles for residences and restaurants in Puerto Rico. We can also\u00a0recreate antique Puerto Rican cement tile\u00a0patterns\u00a0and deliver\u00a0to the\u00a0door in PR. \u00a0Just send us a photo or browse our existing tile patterns and request a quote. Traditional floor designs made of … Continue reading Puerto Rican Cement Tile<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[149,163,107,183,181,120,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antique-encaustic-cement-tile","category-cement-tile-in-restaurants","category-cement-tile-installations","category-cement-tile-outdoors","category-commercial","category-design-and-style","category-travel"],"yoast_head":"\nPuerto Rican Cement Tile - Cement Style<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.villalagoontile.com\/blog\/puerto-rican-cement-tile\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Lundy P. 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