We gathered information on tile designs throughout every country across the world. We began by working through a list of countries, obtaining notable design styles by reading articles such as https://www.roccia.com/inspiration/tile-designs-around-world/ and https://blog.mozaico.com/greek-mosaic-designs/.

We cross-referenced this with information found on Pinterest and Dreamstime, which gave us a great vision for how tiles look worldwide and the subtle/vast differences between them.

The world of tiling dates back to as early as the 4th century BC. From that point, Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Ottomans, Victorians, Chinese, and the Dutch all had an artistic ideology around art, and all similarly took influence from previous styles and designs. This meant an extensive approach was required to make sure our information was correct. To ensure this, we sourced information from professionals such as ceramists, archaeologists, and historians to then decide on which tiles originated from/are the most notable from every corner of the world.

The data was collected in February 2022.