The secret to a fine tile is kept in a plastic-coated notebook with Piglet on the cover. The notebook’s owner, Iván Serrano, 29, walks the grounds of Mosaicos El Castillo – a tile factory founded 35 ...

At A Albuquerque and Sons, the oldest surviving tile factory in Mangalore, workers press featureless mounds of clay into tiles designed to last for more than century. But the region’s sticky clay ...