I’ll bet that you didn’t know this: the pottery business began emerging in England in the late 18th and 19th centuries. During the early 1800s, England was the international center of the ceramics industry. Ninety percent of the English pottery industry was concentrated in the North Staffordshire Potteries area, which was known as “The Six Towns” region or simply “The Potteries.”
From The Potteries, the established skills and processes of traditional potters greatly fostered the development of present-day ceramic tile production. The introductions of plaster of Paris molds, printed decoration and decal transfers made decorative ceramics available to the masses.