Reimagining Timeless Batik Art in Porcelain Mosaics

Across centuries, Batik has carried a sense of rhythm and balance. Once created through layers of wax and dye, it reflected the movement of air and water. At Piccolo, that same rhythm returns in a new form, through porcelain mosaics inspired by Batik art and made for various water bodies and swimming pools.

The Batik Look, available in eight natural hues with silk and velvet finishes, brings a calm, grounded presence to water surfaces. Each mosaic reflects the quiet relationship between colour, texture, and light, turning pools into spaces that feel steady and alive.

Water has its own temperament. It does not stay still; it bends light, softens edges, and mirrors its surroundings. The Batik Look connects to that quality. It allows water and surface to move together, changing appearance through the day, yet always remaining in quiet balance.

The Story of Batik: Flow in Every Form

Batik began as a slow process of layering, wax, colour, and repetition. Each mark was a record of time and movement, shaped by simple elements of nature. Its strength came from flow and balance rather than precision.

That same sense of movement defines Piccolo’s Batik Look porcelain mosaics. The surfaces hold faint transitions, soft edges, and subtle gradients that echo how water behaves, never still, always in motion. Every tile carries that quiet sense of continuity, made to settle naturally within a pool’s surface.

The idea was not to imitate fabric but to carry its rhythm into a material shaped by earth and heat. Porcelain gives Batik a lasting form, something that stays consistent under water, sunlight, and years of use, while keeping the easy visual movement that makes Batik everlasting.

The Batik Look: Nature Translated into Porcelain

In water, colour shifts with light. The Batik Look captures this change. Each porcelain mosaic tile holds a tone that deepens or lightens depending on how light falls on it.

The silk finish reflects light softly, giving the pool a gentle brightness during the day. The velvet finish creates depth and shade, allowing light to move slower across the surface.

Together, they create pools that feel open and balanced, surfaces that change quietly through the day.

Made from porcelain tiles, these mosaics combine texture with durability, staying true even under constant exposure to water and sunlight. Their low water absorption and high density make them suitable for outdoor pools, spas, and other high-humidity settings. They retain colour stability over time, resist fading, and remain unaffected by temperature variations, qualities that keep pools looking clear and consistent season after season.

Textures That Flow With Life

Every Batik porcelain mosaic interacts differently with light. The silk finish brightens water and makes shallow spaces appear clear and wide. The velvet finish softens reflection, creating calm in deeper sections.

Each surface brings a sense of depth and direction, where water does not sit on the mosaic but moves through it visually. These textures make pools feel connected to their surroundings, open, natural, and balanced.

The surface also supports function. The gentle micro-texture adds grip without disturbing the visual smoothness of the pool base or walls. It ensures safety underfoot while maintaining the continuous, fluid appearance that defines the Batik Look. Easy to 
clean and resistant to chlorine and mineral deposits, the mosaics retain both their tone and surface character even with regular maintenance.

The Colour Story: Echoes of Earth and Sky

Each shade in Piccolo’s Batik Look is drawn from nature, from minerals, water, and light. Together, they form a calm and balanced palette that feels at home in outdoor and indoor pools alike.

Before colour was chosen, every hue was studied under water and sunlight to observe how it interacts with depth and reflection. What emerged was a family of tones that stayed clear in movement and steady in shade.

1. Teal Veil: A clear teal with soft veining, echoing shallow tropical water.
2. Verdant Muse: Earthy green with olive undertones, steady and grounded.
3. Amber Drift: Warm beige with golden tones, like sand seen through water.
4. Bronzed Azure: A blend of bronze and blue that shifts subtly in sunlight.
5. Sage Mirage: Muted sage that moves between grey and green, cool and still.
6. Forest Echo: Deep moss green with natural texture, strong and even.
7. Indigo Whirl: Deep indigo touched with lighter veins, like water before dusk.
8. Cinderstone: Charcoal grey with sandy undertones, stable and minimal.

Together, these porcelain mosaic tiles create a continuous palette, one that supports light, blends with its surroundings, and brings a quiet sense of balance to every pool.

For Pools That Feel Alive

The Batik Look is made for pools that reflect their environment. Each mosaic follows the surface naturally, along curves, steps, and edges, maintaining the flow of light and colour.

Whether used in residential pools, courtyards, or large recreational spaces, these porcelain mosaics create a clear visual connection between water and structure. Their durability allows them to stay consistent through changing seasons, temperature, and exposure.

The result is a surface that feels natural, grounded, and lasting. Pools finished with the Batik Look appear lighter in shallow zones and deeper at the base, creating gradual visual depth. The interaction of surface, tone, and light keeps the pool dynamic without ever feeling loud.

Material Integrity

Porcelain offers strength without excess weight, making it ideal for wet environments. The Batik range follows strict standards for density, thickness, and slip resistance, ensuring long-term performance. The material resists water penetration and staining, maintaining clarity in tone even after prolonged exposure to chemicals or minerals.

Installation is simple and adaptable. The small format of each mosaic allows precise coverage, steps and irregular forms. Joints stay uniform, helping water flow smoothly and preventing dirt buildup. Over time, the surface ages evenly, holding its colour and finish without distortion.

In form and function, Batik mosaics combine reliability with visual quietness. They are built for pools that need both endurance and restraint.

Formats and Functional Attributes

The Batik Look porcelain mosaics are available in five versatile formats that allow a range of visual and structural possibilities in pools:

• 5×5 cm Aligned
• 5×5 cm Offset
• 5 cm Hexa
• 10×10 cm Aligned
• 10×10 cm Offset

Each format supports accurate placement and consistent alignment, making it easier to follow pool contours and gradients.

Every mosaic in this range is built for long-term strength and safety. The tiles have ≤ 0.5% water absorption, ensuring minimal expansion in wet conditions. With an 8 mm thickness, they offer high structural stability and resistance to impact. Their anti-slip surface provides firm grip without affecting the visual continuity of the surface.

Piccolo uses an innovative polyurethane linking system to connect each tile, allowing maximum free area between joints for efficient water flow. This system maintains flexibility during installation and prevents detachment or surface irregularities over time.

These mosaics are also tested for breaking strength, modulus of rupture, resistance to glaze cracking, and light and colour fastness, maintaining their tone and texture even after years of water exposure and cleaning cycles.

The Philosophy Behind "Small Is Big"

At Piccolo, we believe that even the smallest element can shape how a space feels. Every porcelain mosaic is part of a larger rhythm, many pieces working together to create a surface that feels cohesive.

The Batik Look continues that belief. Each small piece carries its tone, texture, and purpose, coming together to form a continuous field of calm. In water, the change of light makes every piece visible for a moment before it blends again, like ripples forming and fading.

This quiet movement is what gives each pool its character, steady, fluid, and complete.