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The Handmade Tile Association meeting for members is: Date: Wednesday, April 2nd Time: 6 - 8 pm
Venue: North Prairie Tileworks
2845 Harriet Avenue SouthHTA will provide lasagna, salad and beverages. This is our first meeting of the year. Come talk with your tile peers. Discover what we hear after every meeting: members make lots of new contacts, learn more about the industry and even gain insights as to how to improve their businesses.
We hope you can attend!
Agenda:
1) Discuss opportunities for Handmade Tile Association members.
2) Tour North Prairie Tileworks.
3) Member goals: What would members like HTA to focus on and how can members collaborate to achieve those ideas?
4) Pick up your new marketing cards.
5) Show and share your newest tile or project.
Please mark your calendars and if you can RSVP, please do. It would help us plan for how much food to provide. Thank you! |
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| Tools of the Trade |
 In this issue we're starting a new series on the tools that tile makers utilize and even invent. Tile makers have some interesting and unique tools that are necessary to create tiles. Do you have tools you would like to highlight or that you invented? Please send us info or photos of the tools, how they are used and where they are sold so we can consider them for the series.
Making Holes in Tile - Do you make house numbers and switch plates? Ever need to install a soap dish or other accessory into tile? Or have to clean out a whole that filled in with glaze during firing? If so, there is a wonderful product made just for tile people. A Tungsten Carbide drill bit by www.AnotherAmazingProduct.com
They are made in England but initially we found them at the MN State Fair. We've tested them and they are amazing! They really help remove glaze in tight spots, especially what fills in holes on house numbers. They are affordable, too, with most of the bits under $10. A nice addition to have in your studio.
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| In the Tile Studio |
Many people who follow our Handmade Tile Association members are intrigued by how we make our work. In the Tile Studio is a new feature to help them see the behind-the-scenes activity at a tile shop. Below is a tile fireplace project we liked that was featured on the Handmade Tile Association's Facebook page. Showcased on this link is Laura McCaul of Earth Wood and Fire making her amazing tiled Marsh Fireplace. Click to check it out!
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Moravian Tile Festival
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 It's time to sign up for the Moravian Tile Festival in Doylestown, PA. Deadline for registrations, deposits and booth requests is Monday, April 14th.
Show Dates:
Saturday and Sunday, May 17 & 18, 2014 - rain or shine.
Saturday 10AM to 5PM
Sunday 10AM to 4PM
WHERE:
Moravian Pottery and Tile Works (a National Historic Landmark), 130 East Swamp Road (Route 313),
Doylestown, PA 18901
(Bucks County Pennsylvania.)
Contact mptw@co.bucks.pa.us to get an application.
To download an application click here.
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| Northern Clay Center and Handmade Tile Association Cosponsor Tile Event |
The American Pottery Festival will include our logo in their brochure, which gets mailed out to over 4500 local and national clay enthusiasts.  In addition, the HTA Directory will be available at the check-out table over the American Pottery Festival weekend. Attendance at Opening Night is roughly 400; traffic over the weekend is an additional 400. The workshop will be held at Northern Clay Center; capacity for enrollment currently is at 14. Seven of those spots are reserved for HTA audience members. If they are not used two weeks prior to the event, they will be considered "open seats" and released to the general public. Tentative fee for the workshop is $100. |
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Sincerely,
Josh Blanc
President Handmade Tile Association, LLC |
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 Spotlight on artists for 2014...
If you are next, gather any new images, information or news you would like to be highlighted. Send them to the HTA by the first of your month.
| Sight Line Tile | April | | Mercury Mosaics | April | | SOMI Tileworks | April | | Clay Squared to Infinity | May | | Lea Way Design | May | | Sheryl Tuorila | May | | Tina Schowalter | June | | Earth Wood and Fire | June | | Kathleen Mellin Grubbs LLC | June | | Elfstone Studio | July | | Deb LeAir | July | | Stone Hollow Tile | July | | Ceramic Chinn | August | | House on the Hill | august | | Hohn & Hohn | August | | Belvedere Art Tile | September | | North Prairie Tile | September | | Syzygy Tileworks | September | | Fay Jones Day | October | | Martha Coursey Mosaic Tile Works | October | | Tile Restoration Center | October | | Pewabic Pottery | November | | Untapped Resource | November |
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