About Terrazzo

Terrazzo, from the Italian word for terraces, was created in the Fifteenth-century in Europe when Venetian workers discovered a new use for discarded marble scrap.

They used the marble chips to surface the terraces around their living quarters. The uneven surfaces created, when the chips were set in clay to anchor them, convinced the workers that flattening the surface would produce a smoother surface more comfortable for walking. They began to rub the surface with handstone, achieving a flat surface.

Due to the limitation of production technology at that time, terrazzo itself also had some shortcomings, such as nursing trouble, easy penetration, easy wear and tear, easy weathering and so on. After the 1990s, new materials began to appear, and the properties and prices of granite and artificial stone were more advantageous than terrazzo, and terrazzo was gradually forgotten.

In recent years, people began to use epoxy resin instead of cement as the binder of terrazzo, epoxy resin on the color performance is more delicate and rich, so the color of terrazzo began to enrich.

Nowadays terrazzo is no longer the grey floor tile in people's impression. Advanced technology has injected colors, fresh pink, elegant blue, fresh green, and calm black into terrazzo.

Different colors create different styles for the space.