20 Tiles: Critical Reflection

Overall, I am very pleased with the 20 tiles that I ended up with. I do wish that I had more fabricated pieces and less straight etchings. If I had more time, I would have added more details to the etched tiles, like some pierced designs. I would have also added more solder inlay, perhaps to some deeply etched areas.

I learned a lot making these tiles. The marriage of metal tile's seams started to open up as I was chasing it, so I would have made sure that they were well secured.

I would have liked to incorporate more fold forming, because I really like the look of the finished fold, but when I tried to add multiple folds to the wrought iron fence tile, they collapsed and got smashed.

Everyone seemed to love the quilted chased and repoussed tile,so I would have liked to do one that had some sort of Victorian pattern etched onto it before chasing it, to give it the look of quilted patterned fabric.

I ended up not being crazy about the chased and repoussed lace trim tile, so I would have liked to just chase in more details, to make it look more like lace.

There were only a few tiles that I had specific problems with the final result, and with some time, I could have refined these to be completely happy with them. I found that each of the techniques that we learned were good for different things that I wanted to accomplish, and I could definitely see myself using all of the techniques on future projects.