Age-Old Graining Technique Meets Digital Technology in Crossville's Story Teller

Crossville, Inc. launched Story Teller porcelain tile collection. This unique wood-look collection captures the graining effect achieved through the antique art of cerusing with modern digital technology to provide a mirrored, light-and-dark wood-grain appearance. Cerusing is a 16th-century contrasting technique developed to highlight the graining of wood, yet its stunning effects are as current today as when they were first discovered long ago.

“Story Teller has a key story to tell," said Scott Jones, Crossville director of product development. "Apart from being a beautiful and very realistic wood in porcelain tile, it also works as four color pairs. These are light and dark versions of tones inspired by cerusing and reverse cerusing. If a designer wanted, Story Teller offers built-in coordination for wall-to-floor or floor-to-floor transitions.”