Fès Zellige Tiles Green & White — 50×50cm, 25 Tiles

Green is the colour Morocco is known for in tile, and it's the one that changes most under light. Look at these two greens next to each other — one holds a deep bottle tone with the glaze sitting thick and even, the other lifts toward grass where it thinned and picked up the pale clay underneath. Against the whites, which run from bone to a faint grey with dark speckles showing through the glaze, the pairing is the classic Fassi combination: the one used on riad walls and courtyard fountains for centuries. Twenty-five tiles at 10×10cm, covering 50×50cm.

What Makes It

• Two greens, never one — the glaze pools and thins across a single tile, so a green wall reads as a range rather than a flat field. This is what separates handmade zellige from a green ceramic tile, and it's why the colour holds up on a large surface.
• Hand-formed clay body — turn a tile over and you find a pale clay base, formed by hand, with thickness varying visibly across a single piece. That irregularity is what gives a laid zellige wall its handmade line rather than a printed grid.
• The speckling is in the material — small dark flecks come through the white glaze from the clay body underneath. Not a flaw. It's what tells you the tile was made from earth rather than pressed from a slurry.
• Green and white is the traditional pairing — laid straight, on the diagonal, or in a checker. It works on courtyard floors, backsplashes, full walls, fountain surrounds, and borders.
• Green sits well with brass — the warm metal against the cool green is the pairing used across Moroccan interiors, and it's why green zellige turns up so often behind unlacquered brass fittings.
• Sold in 50×50cm panels — 25 tiles, 0.25m² of coverage. Order the panel count you need and add 10–15% for cuts and breakage, as with any tile.

The Craft

Zellige begins as clay dug from the ground around Fès, formed by hand, dried in the sun, then fired. The glaze is applied by hand and fired again, and what comes out is a range rather than a match — the same glaze on the same clay in the same kiln produces variation the potter cannot fully direct. Moroccan tile setters have worked with that range for centuries; the pattern language of zellige exists because craftsmen learned to compose with variation instead of against it. The imperfection is not tolerated. It is the material.

Details

Before You Order

Order a sample first. Colour and texture vary between batches, and a screen cannot show you how the glaze moves. Buying a sample before a full order is standard practice with handmade tile and it will tell you more than any photograph.

Zellige needs an installer who has worked with handmade tile before. The thickness variation means it does not set like a factory tile, and the result depends heavily on how it's laid. We recommend a professional.

Need a specific quantity, a different colour, or a bulk order for a renovation or a commercial space? Message us and we'll prepare it.

Care

Seal after installation as recommended by your installer. Clean with a pH-neutral cleaner. Avoid acidic or abrasive products, which will damage the glaze.

What's Included

25 tiles covering 50×50cm, packed with protection for transit. One Origin Passport card with a QR code — scan it to see the workshop in Fès, the artisan who made them, the technique, and the GPS coordinates of where the clay was fired. The passport stays with the tiles permanently, including if the property changes hands.

Ships worldwide via DHL Express with tracking. 0 returns across 63 orders. 5.0 rating.