Soapstone (Pietra Ollare), Pietra Ollare Soapstone Slab & Tile, Grey Sandstone Tiles & Slabs

Material, which had been quarried in Chiavenna since the Roman times, historically employed in making stoves thanks to its thermal properties and in earthenware manufacturing thanks to its high versatility. Medium-small-grained stone, dark grey-green coloured. Its oriented weaving of a planar kind (foliation) and its frequent concentrations (veins and lenses) of amphiboles and talc form ah homogeneous pattern with small stains of a changeable grey-green shade (speckled). In consideration of the natural origin of the stone, it is not surprising that it may results a bit patchy, both from the mineral and the from the weaving point of view. We should not take it in account as a defect, rather as a proof of its natural origin; due to its high talc content, the stone is soft to the touch, it can also be worked and cut in any ways and employed in all applications.