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handmade italian cotto > slow flooring

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For those of you traditionally considering natural stone outdoors, here’s a little something to wrap your peepers around. Handmade Italian Cotto is one of our more specialty products. We source it from an old school Italian cotto factory where each piece is carefully crafted by hand and left to dry out naturally in the sun. [...]
Written by Jen @ Eco Outdoor. Posted on June 16, 2011. Filed under eco outdoor, eco training videos, terracotta tiles. Tagged , , , , , , , . No comments.

eco story > how porphyry is quarried

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Porphyry is an igneous stone which consists of large grained crystals such as quartz, dispersed in a dense fine grained matrix. It’s a very dense volcanic stone which has a significant amount of colour variation. In stone speak the word “igneous” comes from a Greek word for fire. Deep inside the earth, the temperature is [...]
Written by Jen @ Eco Outdoor. Posted on July 27, 2010. Filed under eco training videos, porphyry, stone quarries. Tagged , . No comments.