Vein-Cut Travertine Panel
| Form | Vein-Cut Wall Panel |
| Finish | Brushed |
| Color tone | — |
| Thickness | 16 / 18 / 20 / 30 mm |
| Origin | France |
| Indicative price | Indicative FOB: quoted against form, fill state, thickness and quantity. Send a thickness, a quantity, a finish and a destination port for a real figure. |
Cut across the bedding rather than parallel to it. The cut face carries the linear structure that makes travertine recognisable at a distance, and it is a cutting decision rather than a different quarry.
Specification
- Thickness: 20 mm and 30 mm
- Formats: 1200×600, 1200×1200, 2400×1200 mm
- Cut: Vein-cut — sawed across the bedding plane
- Fill state: Unfilled face; can be filled and re-ground to order
- Finish: Honed or brushed on the cut face
- Back: Sawn and calibrated; a sawn back is not a finished back
- Density: 2.4-2.7 g/cm3
How this one behaves on site
Cut across the bedding rather than parallel to it. The cut face carries the linear structure that makes travertine recognisable at a distance, and it is a cutting decision rather than a different quarry.
Every travertine block has a bedding plane, the direction the sediment settled. Sawing across it exposes the long linear voids and the cloudy movement between them — the structure that is usually the reason anyone chose travertine rather than a limestone that is cheaper and flatter. Sawing parallel to it gives a face with almost none of that structure.
That single cutting decision changes the appearance more than anything else about the material, and it is worth stating explicitly in an enquiry, because “vein-cut” and “cross-cut” get used loosely in the trade and mean different things to different suppliers.
On site, the vein-cut face is the one that shows the void pattern, which means it is also the one that needs the most careful handling. The exposed voids are shallow but they run, and an arris edge across a run of voids chips more easily than a solid edge would. Panels in this form are best handled vertically on an A-frame with protected edges, and fixed from the back rather than from the face.
For a continuous wall, the panels must be selected as a set. Do not accept a project where vein-cut panels arrive unsorted and are fitted in whatever order the crate gives.
Ordering and supply
12-20 working days to FOB for standard forms; cut-to-size and matched sets are quoted per job. Send a thickness, a quantity, a finish and a destination port and you will have an FOB quotation, usually within three working days, with no obligation on a first shipment.