Jackfield Tile Museum

The Jackfield Tile Museum, just across the River Severn is another good place to visit. We didn't do it this time, but back in October, we had a go at the tile decorating workshop.

You need to lay down a bead on your tile to shape your design and separate the areas of different glaze in the finished tile. So the first step is to practise doing that...

It's quite tricky. Look at that concentration from Little Miss!

The next step is to create your design. Now they've got loads of designs you can copy, (Little W and I chose a shooting star, Little Miss a penguin, and The Missus a fish) but Big Miss decided to do her own...

Yes! It's a Hungry Horse All-day Breakfast!

Then you have to put your design on the tile. Here is Little W getting some help.

Then you have to paint the tile with the glazes. The rest of us had to wait for ages for The Missus to finish all the little scales on her fish.

They don't look anything like the final colour as you paint them. But then you leave them to be fired for you, and a couple of weeks later they arrive through the post. Here are our completed Works of Art...

Lovely Job!