Peter K. Kaiser wrote:

> >Anyway, the problem under consideration is, how to replace the broken
> >tiles. Any ideas? I have gone to Home Depot and various tile-specialty
> >places on several occasions without finding any matching tiles....nothing even close ...
>
> How about lifting out the broken tile and a few others. Replace them with
> tiles of appropriate contrasting color so that they look like they belong
> there and form tile pattern rather than a homogeneous array of tiles.

The existing tiles already form a rather complex pattern involving four colors (cream, tan, reddish brown and dark chocolate brown) and three shapes of tiles (large squares, narrow rectangles and small squares). All the broken tiles are in one area. If I do not continue the existing pattern across that
area more or less exactly, the result is going to look cruddy. The same will be true if I cannot match the color and unusual surface texture of the tiles. What is there is so distinctive that anything else would stick out like a sore thumb.

John

Susi and John Burchard
Tepe Gawra Salukis
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