Italian potters brought the art of making tin-glazed tiles to the Low Countries in the early sixteenth century. Native potters copied the technique & in the seventeenth century they began to manufacture the distinctive blue & white Dutch tiles. Huge quantities were produced during the seventeenth & eighteenth centuries first in the Netherlands & later in Britain. Because the best tiles & other tin-glazed pottery came from Delft the name of the town became associated with this ware. This book traces the history of delftware tiles describes how they were made & explains the differences between Dutch & English delftware tiles.