How you ever seen a huge abstract painting? What about abstract expressionism? Book matching and quad matching are like piece of modern art. You can even have them in your bathroom.
The Opened Book of Nature
Book matching takes place when two natural stone slabs are placed to each other and mirror their pattern, like a pair of opened wings of butterfly, equal halves of cutting an apple or same as it’s name an opened book so that the veins and colors of one slap match to the neighboring one. Book match creates a continuous motif and sense of movement.
A Giant Diamond on Your Bedroom
Do you like having a massive diamond in your house? Try quad matching. As a matter of fact, quad match is same as book match just instead of two, four slaps are aligned to create an X or diamond shape. This process is also called diamond matching due to the diamond shape.
How Are Bookmatched and Quadmatched Slabs Created?
But the question is that how the slabs of natural stone can perfectly and symmetrically match together? Are not each of slabs unique? Yes they are, however, when a massive block of stone is cut to slices, same as enormous bread, adjacent slices are maintained in the sequential order. First like a chocolate bread or cake when the stone cut verticality we see the vein of chocolate on sequential slices, so in repeated stone slices you can see not same, but similar vein and pattern. Also the stone sides which are going to be polished in manufactures are important. Typically all stone slabs are polished in the same side but when the book match or quad match come to a decision, they polish the opposite side of the stone alternately, so one slab mirrors the other one.
The Best Places for Nature Art
Use the book match and quad match in a large and vertical surface. They are a combination of nature and art, create splendid features so they are meritorious to be seen. Feature walls, big kitchen islands, black splash, kitchen table, shower wall and even on top of the fireplace can be some suitable place for your stunning piece of abstract art.
Can We Book Match or Quad Match all Natural Stones?
When it comes to the book matched and quad matched stone, you encounter with some restrictions. The characteristics of your stone is the subject of discussion. You have the best result with the stones that have strong vein in a high contrast color, like black and white, with their background .Vivid colors, linear patterns, flowing movement, contrast in colors, dynamic and conspicuous motif should be seen in your stone slabs. Marble, quartzite, granite, and travertine can be chosen for book matching. Thanks to the mineral material and thousands of thousands geological evolution, we bring the beauty of nature to our house, we must be ware about our nature and its maintenance.
