Travertine Blasted Mosaic 2x4 is a mesh-backed mosaic sheet, cut from natural travertine quarried in Turkey and finished by hand in our own workshop. Chip format is 2x4. Chips sit on a straight grid, quiet enough to run the full height of a wall without fighting anything else in the room.

Surface and color. The face of each chip is opened mechanically, with no acid and no chemical wash, so it keeps the texture the stone had in the ground. Shades sit in the brown, gray and beige range. Stone is not manufactured to a color standard, so allow for movement between sheets. Sheets are thinned in production, so they are light enough to go on a wall without a structural allowance.

The stone. The stone is cut wet on diamond saws, which is slower than dry cutting but leaves a cleaner arris on every chip. Marble is metamorphic and dense, which is what lets it take a crisp edge on a chip this small.

Where it works. It suits a full-height backsplash, a wet-room wall, an entry feature panel or the face of a fireplace chimney breast. For floor use, check the finish against the traffic the room actually takes.

Setting it. Use a non-staining white adhesive and seal the sheet before grouting — natural stone will take up pigment from a dark grout if it goes on raw. Use a non-staining white adhesive and seal the sheet before grouting — natural stone will take up pigment from a dark grout if it goes on raw.

What the photographs show. We photograph every mosaic twice: once flat, square to the camera, so nothing about the pattern is hidden, and once in a finished room so you can see it under real light with furniture in front of it.

Ordering. $11.99 per sheet, shipped free anywhere in the US from our Connecticut warehouse. Production and dispatch times are shown on this page; the full schedule is in our Shipping Policy.