Natural Stone Finishes
Our stones come in a range of finishes – these may be for aesthetic or practical effect.
In a bathroom, for example, you may want a more textured finish for better slip resistance.
If you are restoring a propoerty, an ageing process such as distressed will help you to match existing materials.
Stone Finishes
Distressed flat surface, fettered and cushioned edges, usually crafted by hand.
Worn a smoothing process to create the effect of antique, riven flagstones.
Riven naturally split stone.
Satino textured surface, edges usually square.
Seasoned is a combination of tumbled and satino with rounded edges and a textured, non-slip surface.
Tumbled soft round edges, grained surface.
Velvet the stone is sandblasted to give it a bleached, etched effect and then undergoes a satino process which gives it a tactile, velvety feel.
Vintaged textured surface with fettered edges.
Weathered hand fettered edges, open-grain surface.
Etched sand-blasted finish for texture.
Patterns
Products that are supplied in ‘patterns’ consist of combinations of set size flagstones, which enable you to follow classic patterns such as French, Greek, English, Moroccan, Irish, American and Dutch as illustrated here. This means you can lay your stone floor to these patterns without the waste associated with cutting uniform flagstones to appropriate sizes.
So for example, one set of ‘English pattern’ consists of 13 stones, and 2.23m2 in total.
Some of our stones are available in different widths and random lengths, so that you can choose whether to lay floors in your own free-form pattern or in a regimented design.
When buying a pattern you must buy at least one complete set of stones and therefore a minimum number of square metres, depending on the exact quantity of stone within that pattern.
Dutch Pattern fig 1
Each repeat is 3.3m2. There are 11 stones in each repeat.
| stone | dimensions (cm) | quantity |
| A | 61 x 91.8 | 3 |
| B | 61 x 61 | 2 |
| C | 30.5 x 61 | 4 |
| D | 30.5 x 30.5 | 2 |
Greek Pattern fig 2
Each repeat is 2.72m2. There are 12 stones in each repeat.
| stone | dimensions (cm) | quantity |
| A | 55 x 82 | 2 |
| B | 55 x 55 | 4 |
| C | 27 x 55 | 2 |
| D | 27 x 27 | 4 |
French pattern fig 2
Each repeat is 1.44m2. There are 12 stones in each repeat.
| stone | dimensions (cm) | quantity |
| A | 40 x 60 | 2 |
| B | 40 x 40 | 4 |
| C | 20 x 40 | 2 |
| D | 20 x 20 | 4 |
Moroccan pattern fig 2
Each repeat is 1.48m2. There are 12 stones in each pattern repeat.
| stone | dimensions (cm) | quantity |
| A | 40.6 x 61 | 2 |
| B | 40.6 x 40.6 | 4 |
| C | 20.3 x 40.6 | 2 |
| D | 20.3 x 20.3 | 4 |
American pattern fig 2
Each repeat is 5.76m2. There are 12 stones in each repeat.
| stone | dimensions (cm) | quantity |
| A | 80 x 120 | 2 |
| B | 80 x 80 | 4 |
| C | 40 x 80 | 2 |
| D | 40 x 40 | 4 |
English pattern fig 3
Each repeat is 2.23m2. There are 13 stones in each repeat.
| stone | dimensions (cm) | quantity |
| A | 45 x 60 | 4 |
| B | 45 x 45 | 3 |
| C | 37 x 37 | 1 |
| D | 22 x 60 | 2 |
| E | 22 x 22 | 3 |
Set widths x random lengths