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, …
Read More →ALABASTER TRANSFORMATION PROCESSES
The cut of Alabaster The work carried out at the sawmill can be described as follows: • Peeling with manual tools, like hammers, mallets or spikes. The useful fragments are classified in terms of size and quality for subsequent operations. • Sawing, with circular saws. …
Read More →ALABASTER PROPERTIES AND CHARACTERISTICS
Alabaster is characterized by the crystal size (less than 0.05 mm) disposed in an intimate framework that confers alabaster translucency and compactness. The first of these qualities provides alabaster with its characteristic beauty; the second one, combined with gypsum’s low hardness, is what makes this …
Read More →WELCOME TO ALABASTER ARASTONE WEBSITE!
ARASTONE is a company that has been dedicated to alabaster for two generations. We have our own quarries and facilities, as well as industrial premises that enable us to carry out all types of transformations and to meet the deadlines established for supplying finished pieces. …
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