Arabescato
The name of this family comes from the geometric patterns typical of Islamic art and refers to marble varieties with a white or grey (or other color) groundmass and an irregular pattern of darker-colored veins that generally follows a preferential direction.
Traditionally this variety is mainly cut against the grain (the hard way), or perpendicular to the grain (the easy way), so as to highlight the material’s decorative qualities.
It is quarried above all in Versilia, but is also found in Garfagnana and Massa, and to a lesser extent in Carrara too.