ALABASTER REPAIR AND CARE
Alabaster repair and care Alabaster, a beautiful, translucent and thin (fine grain) stone, has been valued for hundreds of years. It is similar to marble, and the two stones confuse. Alabaster was extracted from quarries for many years in Italy and Egypt. But the creations …
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ALABASTER MATERIAL
Alabaster is the stone of art par excellence, a much-appreciated resource for sculptors and architects who, from antiquity until these days, have been able to take advantage of its characteristic features, above all the ease with which it can be worked and polished and its …
Read More →ALABASTER FROM ARAGON: ARAGON IS A MINE
The last February, we were interviewed by the Mobile Unit Aragón TV program. Follow our interview and enjoy viewing how the alabaster is extracted from our quarries! Report: “Aragon is a mine” (minute 28:36 – minute 34:10 )
Read More →ALABASTER PRODUCTS ARASTONE
ARASTONE have different types of Alabaster’s products. In ARASTONE, we supply the finished material. We adjust to detailed plans (design, sizes, colours, forms and technical specifi cations).Any of our products are: PLAQUES: We have differents forms what adapt to any surface. It’s depend of project and its application. …
Read More →ALABASTER: DIFFERENT WAYS TO USE IT
In Arastone have many differents ways to use the Alabaster. We use it in Sculpture, Architecture, Interior design and lighting. We took advantage of the possibilities afforded Alabaster to create authentic works of art. Now, we are going to show some examples of these wonderful …
Read More →Alabaster: Terms that you should know about it
If you want to learn to make out alabaster to other materials as a traslucent building material, you must learn some terms. COLOR: It’s the background color of stone. It can be white, beige and rose. STREAKS: They are strips the different color to the …
Read More →ALABASTER VS MARBLE – DO YOU KNOW THE DIFFERENCES?
We are alabaster suppliers. For more information: “Alabaster vs marble are materials that most deceive at first sight. There are differences in their hardness and their texture” Alabaster is softer and lighter than marble. Alabaster weighs 143 lbs. per cubic foot while marble weighs …
Read More →HOW DOES ALABASTER FORM?
How does Alabaster form? Gypsum is a salt formed by precipitation in lakes and ponds subjected to intense evaporation (evaporite basins). As the water mass decreases, the saturation degree that is needed for the different salts to precipitate is reached. The accumulation of small gypsum …
Read More →HISTORY OF ALABASTER AND ITS USE
HISTORY OF ALABASTER In Egypt, both cultures, Fayum und Tasa, used alabaster palettes for grinding and mixing pigments with those who practiced the art of painting their eyes. Later generations of Egyptian craftsmen worked extensively on alabaster vases and bottles made for unguents and perfumes, …
Read More →The use of aragonese alabaster
ARAGONESE ALABASTER The abundance of alabaster in Aragon must have been crucial for its use in architecture, sculpture and decoration. There is no record of likely use by pre- Roman cultures, so perhaps the first ones to use alabaster stone in Aragon were the Romans, …
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