The engraved pet memorial rock is one of our larger memorial rocks, with a dimension of 520mm x 270mm. You will need a fair sized stone if you want to add a lot of text, as unlike polished stone the lettering can’t be too small.
This particular engraved memorial stone is created from Solid Welsh Slate, a sturdy and beautiful stone that can help you have a proper memorial for your pet. Available for any pet imaginable, this rock is large enough to cover more than a simple name.
The letters of the rock are painted with a specific color to allow the letters to stand out. Occasionally, simply etched letters on solid welsh slate can be difficult to read, especially in rainy weather. We understand that you want your memorial to be able to be seen and read in any weather, so we paint the letters to allow them to stay visible through all weather types.
I images can also be added though they tend to be simple images only as we cannot go to tiny detailed engraving on this type of stone.
Dimensions of this stone are 520mm x 270mm.
This dog memorial stone is a medium sized memorial that is created from a solid Welsh Slate. The font you see used here is Monotype Corsiva, and is filled in with white paint, which is a good contrasting colour.
This look is very popular for the dog memorial stones as the contrasting colors are easy to read from a distance. The contrasting color is optional but you may feel that it is important to add, as text on slate can be hard to read when simply etched; the letters seem to disappear when the rock gets wet. By contrasting with a painted color, we are able to make sure that rain or shine, the memorial can be read.
Different styles of fonts are available for the dog memorial stones. This example shows the font sizes at its largest, as no other details were required for this example – most have dates and messages added. We tend to leave a larger space at the bottom, so that any small growth of grass or brush does not encroach over the lettering.
The dimensions of this solid Welsh Slate dog memorial stone are 350mm x 200mm.
Medium sized cat memorial made using solid Welsh slate. The font used was Zapf Humanist and was filled with grey paint.
Grey paint is a popular option for pet memorials as they do not need to be read from any distance or at night. You may wonder why we use grey paint at all when it would be simpler to leave the etched text as the natural colour – whilst this too is possible slate lettering becomes difficult to read when it’s wet. Using a grey paint as close as possible to the natural etched slate colour is a good option as it looks natural all the time it’s dry and is still readable when wet.
This was probably about the limit for the amount of text that could be fit onto this sized stone without encroaching too much onto the base area which we try to leave clearance from so that the owner does not have to cut the grass or foliage around the stone too often.
The dimensions of this slate cat memorial are 360mm x 330mm.
