Delft Tile Maker
Make Delft-style blue and white tiles: a picture in the middle, a corner ornament in each corner and an optional circle frame, painted in one ink on a white glaze. Choose a windmill, a sailing ship, a tulip or a bird on a branch, or a mixed wall with a different picture on each tile. Choose fleur, quarter-rosette, leaf or dot corners, the ink and a light wash for shading. Set the tile size and the joint, then print a tile wall or whole tiles to cut out at real size, or download one tile as SVG or a 300 DPI PNG. Nothing is uploaded.
100% private — everything runs in your browser. Everything runs in your browser; nothing is uploaded.
Print at 100% (Actual size): tiles print at real size and the bar in the footer checks the scale. The SVG and PNG tiles are one tile at real size; set them side by side for a repeat.
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Runs in your browser with our own code: nothing you type is uploaded or saved. Every picture and ornament is drawn by our own code; no historic tile is copied. You may use what you make here, including commercially, with no credit needed.
How to make a Delft-style tile
- Pick a preset, or set the tile size and the unit.
- Choose the centre picture, or Mixed wall for a different picture on each tile.
- Choose the corner ornament, the frame, the ink and the wash.
- Set the joint width and colour, and a tile wall or whole tiles.
- Download the PDF and print at 100% (Actual size), or the SVG or PNG tile.
What you can use it for
- Kitchen and fireplace tile mock-ups at real size
- Coasters, trivets and craft tiles to print or paint
- Wallpaper, wrapping paper and fabric repeats
- Dutch-themed party and wedding stationery
- Cut vinyl and stencils from the SVG
- History and art lessons on painted tiles
The 15 presets
| Preset | Tile | Picture | Corners | Frame | Ink | Joint | Tiles on Letter |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windmill, corner fleurs | 10 cm | windmill | fleur | circle | Cobalt blue on white | 0.2 cm | 2 whole + 4 cut |
| Sailing ship, double frame | 10 cm | ship | fleur | double | Cobalt blue on white | 0.2 cm | 2 whole + 4 cut |
| Tulip, corner leaves | 10 cm | tulip | leaves | none | Cobalt blue on white | 0.2 cm | 2 whole + 4 cut |
| Bird on a branch, corner dots | 10 cm | bird | dots | circle | Cobalt blue on white | 0.2 cm | 2 whole + 4 cut |
| Mixed wall: a different picture on each tile | 10 cm | mixed (seed 3) | fleur | circle | Cobalt blue on white | 0.2 cm | 2 whole + 4 cut |
| Quarter rosettes: whole rosettes where four tiles meet | 10 cm | tulip | quarter rosette | circle | Cobalt blue on white | 0.2 cm | 2 whole + 4 cut |
| Deep blue ship, no wash | 10 cm | ship | fleur | circle | Deep blue on white | 0.2 cm | 2 whole + 4 cut |
| Manganese purple windmill | 10 cm | windmill | fleur | circle | Manganese purple on white | 0.2 cm | 2 whole + 4 cut |
| Black on white bird | 10 cm | bird | leaves | circle | Black on white | 0.2 cm | 2 whole + 4 cut |
| Windmill facing left, sails turned | 10 cm | windmill (mirrored) | fleur | circle | Cobalt blue on white | 0.2 cm | 2 whole + 4 cut |
| Corners only (plain centre) | 10 cm | none | quarter rosette | none | Cobalt blue on white | 0.2 cm | 2 whole + 4 cut |
| Tulip with a fine border line | 10 cm | tulip | dots | none | Cobalt blue on white | 0.2 cm | 2 whole + 4 cut |
| Small 7.5 cm tiles, mixed | 7.5 cm | mixed (seed 7) | fleur | circle | Cobalt blue on white | 0.2 cm | 6 whole + 6 cut |
| 5 in tiles, 1/8 in joint | 5 in | windmill | fleur | circle | Cobalt blue on white | 0.13 in | 1 whole + 3 cut |
| Whole 7 cm tiles to cut out | 7 cm | windmill | fleur | circle | Cobalt blue on white | 0.6 cm | 6 whole |
Tile counts are for a US Letter portrait sheet and are worked out by the tool.
Checks
| Check | Result in our tests |
|---|---|
| Corners, frame, border | four-fold: every point has its quarter-turn partner |
| Quarter-rosette corners | every piece crossing a tile edge meets its copy on the next tile |
| Tulip | mirror-symmetric, every point |
| Picture | inside the frame circle |
| Tile wall | the colour at a point equals the colour one tile along, across and down |
What prints
| Download | What is in it |
|---|---|
| A tile wall or whole tiles at real size, vector, with the tile size, joint and a check bar | |
| SVG tile | One tile at real size in mm: corners, frame and picture as their own paths |
| PNG tile 300 DPI | The same tile as a picture |
| PNG sheet 300 DPI | The PDF sheet as a picture |
For a cut stencil, use the Stencil Maker; to match other colours to the blue, try the Color Palette Generator.
Which tool to use
| You want | Use |
|---|---|
| Blue and white tiles with pictures and corner ornaments | Delft Tile Maker (this page) |
| Colourful painted tiles with rosettes | Talavera Tile Pattern Maker |
| Japanese repeat patterns | Japanese Pattern Generator |
| Texture maps of tiled surfaces | Tile Texture |
Other tools: the Japanese Pattern Generator for wave and lattice repeats and Tile Texture for texture maps. For the history of Delft blue pottery, vases and tiles, read our article on Delftware.
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Frequently asked questions
What is a Delft tile?
A tin-glazed tile painted in blue on white. The Victoria and Albert Museum’s article on Delftware tiles (read 13 November 2026) says tin-glazed tiles “spread from Italy to the Netherlands and eventually to Britain in the 16th century”, and that “virtually all polychrome decoration was abandoned from 1625 onwards, when blue and white tiles became the dominant style”. This tool draws its own pictures and ornaments in that blue-and-white style; no historic tile is copied.
What are the corner ornaments for?
They frame the picture, and where four tiles meet they make a small pattern across the joint. The quarter-rosette corners are centred on the corner, so four tiles make one whole rosette; our tests check every piece meets its copy on the next tile.
Which pictures are there?
A windmill (you can turn its sails), a sailing ship, a tulip and a bird on a branch, each drawn by our own code inside a circle frame. Mirror flips a picture left to right. A mixed wall picks a picture for each tile from the seed.
Is the tile symmetric?
The corners, frame and border are four-fold symmetric: our tests turn every point a quarter turn and find its partner. The pictures are not, except the tulip, which is mirror-symmetric in our tests.
Which inks can I use?
4 inks: cobalt blue, deep blue, manganese purple and black, each on a white glaze, with an optional lighter wash of the same ink for shading.
Does the tile wall repeat exactly?
With the same picture on every tile, yes: our tests paint hundreds of points of the printed sheet and check the colour is the same one tile along, across and down. A mixed wall changes the picture from tile to tile on purpose.
Can I print tiles at real size?
Yes. The PDF is real size with a check bar in the footer: print at 100% (Actual size). Choose Whole tiles only to print complete tiles to cut out.
Is it free?
Yes. There is no sign-up, no watermark and no limit.
Is anything uploaded?
No. Every tile is drawn by JavaScript in your browser. Nothing you choose is sent anywhere or saved when you close the page.