Melissa:

I am not sure of the type of floor tiles to which you are referring.  If you mean the orange and green tiles that were common in many of the paintings of the seventeenth century Dutch Realists, then they could be estrikken tiles. This was documented by Pual Huey. If these sound like what you have then you might also check out the following, which also has a reference for lead window cames: 

 
2003 Jason D. Moser, Sherri M. Marsh,
Al Luckenbach, and Donna Ware.  Impermanent
Architecture in A Less
 Permanent Town.
Perspectives in  Vernacular Architecture
IX, pp 197–214, edited by A.K. Hoagland and Ken Breisch. University of Tennessee
Press. 

Jason



 

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I don't have a website but Harrison Meeske's book "The Hudson Valley Dutch and 
Their Houses" illustrates floor tiles as well as delft tiles. You might also 
check out "Dutch Colonial Homes in America" by Roderick H. Blackburn.  It has 
excellent color illustrations.  Meeske also has some good illustrations of 
window leads.  

All the best,

Rich Veit

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Subject: Colonial floor tiles & window glazing

I'm looking for a source of information on the kind of ceramic floor tiles found 
in early Dutch or other colonial houses. Years ago, I saw such artifacts 
described in some conference papers in Albany about early sites.
But I'm finally in the internet age and would like to find illustrations of this 
type of artifact. Can anyone recommend a web site where I might find such 
illustrations?

The other early artifact type I would like to illustrate is windowpane lead - 
the thin strips that formed the channels that held small glass panes togetehr to 
form larger windows.
Both glazing lead strips and floor tiles might be more common on European sites? 
If so, can someone recommend a European source?
Thanks in advance for helping.

Meli Diamanti