Vein Matching Marble

What is marble veining.

Vein matching marble.

We use vein matching to ensure that two different slabs appear to be one continue slab with veins that match each other. Perhaps the best plan here is to develop a brief understanding of marble and then move on to veins and veining. Whether the countertop is for the kitchen or the bath surface. Vein matching is dissimilar to book matching in that the marble in the space such as bathrooms or kitchen splashbacks creates a sense of continuity.

What are the best types of stone for vein matching. Marble and onyx tend to be better suited for this application because these stones generally have very defined patterns or veins. The steady growth in big vein marble look quartz has led to our templaters sawyers and fitters being more conscious of this issue than ever before and it is right for our customers to have some awareness of the challenges too. If you are interested in getting a worktop installation with vein matching please contact us we can accommodate for your needs.

Marble stirs the imagination in many ways. Your options are fairly open as long there s a prominent pattern that can stretch across the different planes of stone. This is a question that roams the landscape of the stone industry in 2018 and has been out there for decades if not centuries. But i do need to write again about vein matching.

All recent examples of vein matching we have done can be seen below. Surface encounters uses the latest in vein matching technology to produce matched vein for any marble or granite countertop. Usually granite will cause the biggest issue but due to the improvement and technology advances in quartz slab fabrication this is now also noteworthy for quartz worktops too. In this case the stone or marble is normally cut from the same slab and kept in a sequence so they appear matched in order.

In our vein matching process we combine and superimpose a digital image of your exact slabs the laser optic measure from your home and the cad drawing of your precise layout which allows us to determine the best possible. As if it were a fingerprint each type of marble or stone has a different pattern and in addition depending on the place and time of extraction this pattern can be very different. The different types of patterns and veins in marble and natural stone give a unique personality to each variety and even to each piece. Where book matching is used the backs of the stone slabs will need to be polished and matched so the result seems flawless.