Small Black Provençal Frieze

A sample is the only honest referee: screens shift colours, while a real tile shows the true white, grey and blue-grey of Frise Petite Provençale Noire under your own light. Request one from Carocim before committing — standard advice for any handmade cement tile, whose matt mineral shades deserve to be judged in situ.

10 × 20 cm of rhythmic curves fit the Art Deco spirit surprisingly well: the repeated lines of Frise Petite Provençale Noire echo the period's love of ornament and repetition, while the blue-grey palette matches its taste for smoky elegance. Frame a geometric field with this Carocim cement tile border and the scheme gains period flavour.

Across more than a century, the gestures have barely moved: like the first cement tiles of the 1800s, Frise Petite Provençale Noire is still made with a divider mould, hand-poured pigments and a hydraulic press — never a kiln. Carocim perpetuates this heritage technique essentially intact; only quality control and pigment mastery have been refined.

Yes, right down to its name: Frise Petite Provençale Noire revisits the border repertoire of southern French floors, where repeated curving lines framed patterned carpets of cement tiles. Carocim reissues that tradition in white, grey and blue-grey, in a 10 × 20 cm format made for the same timeless role — elegant, refined framing.

Systematic protection is the differentiator: where some encaustic makers leave UV resistance to chance, Carocim treats every outdoor cement tile against sunlight as standard. Frise Petite Provençale Noire therefore keeps its white, grey and blue-grey true where untreated competitors may fade. Pigment-protected colours, real and stable — that is the house benchmark.