The Saltillo Tile is a result of a fine artisan work that has remained intact per year’s turns to our products in pieces of unique beauty. Without doubts the best option of floor with own and ideal character for the lovers of the rustic, colonial, Mediterranean design. The loseta of crude mud obtains its name of the city of Saltillo, located in the northeast of Mexico, where it is originally made.

Handmade the manufacture process is old; say that he is he himself who were used in Biblical times and he himself who arrived from hand from the Spaniards at Mexico.

The mud is extracted of mountains and it is left in water during all the night. On the following day it is placed in the wood molds. The craftsman scatters the mud with his hands, making sure that the thickness of the piece is the suitable one. Finally, losetas is dried to the sun and soon they put to the furnace. The variation of color between a piece and another one must to the form in which the floor tile is placed within the furnace. While near the fire it is the piece more, yellower it will be. The colors go from amber to the terra-cotta.

The Saltillo Tile is one of the two most famous products of the Mexican city of Saltillo, Coahuila. (The other is the multi-colored woven sarapes so typical of the region.)

The Saltillo Tiles vary in color and shape, but the majority range from in varying hues of reds, oranges and yellows. Tiles are shaped either by pressing quarried clay with a wooden frame (super), or carving out the desired shape (regular).