A resident of Burnsville, North Carolina, Tzadi Turrou designs and crafts colorful tiles from small decorative tiles to larger architectural pieces. She has developed her formula for a black wax resist line of tiles crucial to her “cuerda seca” technique. The glazed "cuerda seca" technique involves silk screening and wax-resist lines on the already-fired clay. 

Her small tiles are ideal for trivets or wall hangings. Many of her larger pieces are designed as she works with architects specializing in custom homes.

Tzadi became interested in the arts while attending the American College in Paris. When she returned to the United States, she entered an intense study of ceramics in Massachusetts.  She later moved to Colorado to continue her studies and then moved on to Arizona where she was involved in organizing demonstrations of raku and wheel-throwing clay to the public. This is where she became interested in tiles and discovered the “cuerda seca” technique. She also engaged in collaborative work with other artists.

Her work is available at her home studio as well as many large ceramic dealers throughout the United States.  Her tiles are in the Stickley Museum Shops in Parsipanny, NJ; Gallery of the Mountains at the Grove Park Inn in Asheville, NC; The Crimson Laurel Gallery in Bakersville, NC; and Hands Gallery in Boone, NC.