Our tile clay is prepared in the following way. A large amount of slip is poured into flat plaster filled boxes. When the slip becomes firm enough to handle we pass it through a machine called a pug mill. This machine squeezes the air bubbles from the clay and produces a log of consistent density. Next these logs are passed through a slab roller which produces large slabs of clay of a pre-set thickness. Tiles of various dimensions are cut from this slab, hand impressed with one-of-a-kind designs and dried on boards.