Why does 8x8 lean toward pattern?
Most 8x8 tile here has a pattern or a shape: printed encaustic looks, cement designs, terrazzo chips and terracotta stars and octagons. Each square is 64 square inches. Plain faces come mainly in the white Colore look porcelain. For larger squares, see 12x12 tiles.
Encaustic look porcelain in 8x8
Encaustic look porcelain prints a cement tile pattern on a matte porcelain face. MSI's Kenzzi line includes Paloma, Zanzibar, Indigo, Zoudia, Tamensa, Kasbah and Azila, and its Zaria line Elora, Tessa, Sakura, Greta, Modena and Gia, all 0.55 inch thick. Trinity Trastevere and Trinity Constantino are thinner, at 0.32 inch, and the supplier describes Trastevere as forming a medallion when four tiles meet. These MSI tiles have interior floor listings.
Terrazzo and cement tiles
Terrazzo tiles in 8x8 come matte and 11/16 inch thick, in Sandy in white, Soft in pink, Asphalt in gray, and Granada Blend and Cloud in blue, all with shower wall and interior floor listings. Cement 8x8 tiles include the honed Handmade Bianca hexagon, Handmade Stella and Handmade Flecha at 5/8 inch, and the polished Allegro, Arietta and Bel Canto at 11/16 inch. More is in terrazzo tiles and cement tiles.
Plain white Colore look porcelain
Colore look is the name of a thin porcelain line with a plain, solid color face, and in 8x8 it comes as White Matte, Bautismo and Dalia, all white, matte and 15/64 inch thick. All three are listed for shower floors, shower walls, interior floors and outdoor floors.
Terracotta shapes
Terracotta in this size is shaped more than square: Sunrise comes as a star, a cross, an 8 inch hexagon and a hand pressed square at 3/8 inch, and the Rustic Cotto octagon is 3/4 inch with shower wall, interior and outdoor floor listings. Florentine is a glazed terracotta square in gray at 3/4 inch. More terracotta is in terracotta tiles.
Crackled ceramic
Ikat and Manta are crackled ceramic 8x8 tiles at 3/8 inch, with a glaze that shows a fine web of surface lines. Ikat is listed as blue and Manta as multicolor, and both have shower wall and backsplash listings.
Which 8x8 tiles are listed for floors?
Floor listings cover the MSI encaustic look porcelain, the terrazzo tiles, the Handmade Bianca, Stella and Flecha and the Allegro cement tiles, the Colore look porcelain, the Rustic Cotto octagon and the Sunrise cross, and Arietta polished cement has a light floor listing. The Colore look porcelain and the Rustic Cotto octagon are also listed for outdoor floors, and the Colore look porcelain is the 8x8 tile with a shower floor listing.
Which 8x8 tiles are listed for walls?
Shower wall listings cover the terrazzo tiles, the Handmade Bianca, Stella, Flecha and Allegro cement tiles, the Colore look porcelain, the Rustic Cotto octagon, and Ikat and Manta crackled ceramic. Sunrise star, Florentine and Bel Canto are listed for interior walls, and Ikat, Manta and the Sunrise hexagon for backsplashes. The MSI encaustic look tiles in this size have interior floor listings.
Matte, honed or polished?
Matte is the face on the encaustic look porcelain, the terrazzo tiles and the Colore look porcelain. The Handmade Bianca, Stella and Flecha cement tiles are honed, and Allegro, Arietta and Bel Canto are polished cement. The Rustic Cotto and Sunrise terracotta have a natural finish, Florentine is glazed, and Ikat and Manta have a crackled glaze.
Encaustic colors from white to blue and black
White encaustic looks include Kenzzi Paloma, Zaria Tessa, Sakura, Modena and Gia, and Trinity Trastevere, with blue in Zaria Greta, Kenzzi Zanzibar, Indigo and Azila, gray in Kenzzi Zoudia and Tamensa and Trinity Constantino, beige in Zaria Elora, and black in Kenzzi Kasbah. The terrazzo adds pink and blue, the cement brown and multicolor, and the terracotta red.
