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Antique Flooring Antique Tiles

Nineteenth century homes had splendid antique flooring -- entry ways, baths, porches and hallways -- using encaustic and geometric tile floors. The encaustic tiles on the antique floor were individually patterned, while the geometrics were small, plain tiles that fit together to make a pattern of squares, triangles or diamonds.

Antique Tile Pictures

Parquet Antique Flooring

Featured are designs of parquet hardwood antique flooring and parquet hardwood flooring borders available in the 1860s. The floors of many large Victorian homes were inlaid with variously colored hardwood arranged in geometrical patterns. This branch of decorative art was known as parquetry.

Hardwood Antique Flooring

Floorcloths as Antique Flooring

Floorcloths, or oilcloths, are hand-painted canvas rugs that came in a variety of patterns for antique flooring for the Victorian home. These floorcloths were available in different widths from one to two yards wide.Discover a variety of original floorcloth designs and patterns.

Floorcloths Pictures

Antique Hardwood Flooring

Antique hardwood flooring in oak, maple, cherry, ash, birch, Brazilian cherry, and walnut hardwoods has been used in Victorian homes.

Antique Hardwood Flooring

Antique Flooring Carpets and Rugs

Antique decorative carpets and area rugs are wonderful pieces for decorating antique flooring. Find pictures and informationm, including the history of antique carpets and an 1841 ingrain woven carpet from Ithaca, New York.

Carpets and Rugs

1. Adonis vernalis. 2. Thalictrum aqnilegifolium. 3. Clematis integrifolia. 4. Hepatica triloba. 5. H.americana.

1. Saxifraga crassifolia. 2. S. lignlata. 3. S. appositifolia. 4. S. stellaris

1. Papaver orientale. 2. P. alpinnm. 3. P. rabro-aurantiacum. 4. Meconopsis cambrica. 5. Argemone grandiflora. 6. Sangoinaria caoadensis. 7. Macleaya cordata.

1. Delphinium Barlowii. 2. D. montanum. 3. D. sapphirinum. 4. D. Menziesii. 5. D. azureum.

1. Enothera macrocarpa 2. E. taraxacifolia 3. E. glauca 4. E. pallida 5. E. bipons