The story of this stone
Guizhou White Wood Marble comes from Anlong County, Guizhou — a region shaped by karst limestone geology, with extensive cave systems and rock formations that have made the area a source of building stone for generations. Local builders have used this same limestone for curbstone, house foundations and even stone bridges, some of which are still standing and in use after a century of weather and traffic.
Geologically, the stone is a dolomitic limestone, formed over a long period of mineral deposition that produced its distinctive parallel banding — fine, even lines running through a soft grey-white background, closely resembling the grain of natural timber. Anlong County's deposits are unusually large: this district holds more than 80% of the world's known reserves of this particular wood-grain limestone type, which is why we're able to commit to long-term, large-volume supply for major projects without concern for depletion.
We quarry the block ourselves, which means we control grain direction and consistency from the moment the stone is cut from the mountain — rather than buying blocks second-hand from a trader — and we can plan each block's cutting toward vein cut or cross cut depending on what a project calls for.