In addition to horizontal and vertical installation, wooden floors allow for an infinite variety of patterns and designs, including Italian, French, and Hungarian herringbone installation.
Depending on the cut of the boards and, of course, based on your tastes and the style you want to give your environment, the parquet can be laid in a pattern reminiscent of a herringbone. There are three main variants of herringbone parquet: French, Hungarian, and Italian.
Keep in mind that while running, horizontal, and vertical installation can also be done with boards of different lengths, in the case of herringbone, the strips must all be the same size. Moreover, herringbone installation always requires the boards to be glued to the subfloor.

Hungarian and French herringbone: the secret is in the angles

In general, herringbone installation involves laying the boards at an angle to each other, in such a way as to reproduce the typical herringbone pattern, resembling fishbones.
We will return to the Italian herringbone in more detail in the next paragraph: for now, let’s anticipate that the boards that compose it are all perfectly rectangular, without the cuts and bevels at the corners that distinguish the French and Hungarian herringbones.

The peculiarity of the Hungarian herringbone is that it features an angle between the contact parts of one board and another that can vary between 45 and 60°. The Hungarian herringbones we offer in our collections are indeed at 52°. Once laid, its design will have a classic arrow shape, but wider compared to the French herringbone.

Hungarian herringbone natural oak, Dream collection

The cradle of parquet, as we have already seen in the post on the history of wooden floors, France gave rise to compositions that are in turn very widespread and popular, including the French herringbone. The latter differs from others due to the regular 45-degree oblique cut and also because, especially in recent times, its width has been expanded and now reaches more than double the traditional width.

Italian herringbone Arrow, Signature collection

The pleasure of Italian herringbone with Arrow by Woodco

With strong elegance and visual impact, the Italian herringbone is characterized by boards with a 90-degree angle arranged in parallel rows so that the head of one joins the side of the other. And the Italian herringbone design is further enhanced thanks to the new Arrow format, with which Woodco has enriched its Signature collection.
In the Arrow line, no element is the same as another, except for the dimensions of 45x450x14 millimeters, and this offers the possibility of creating a floor with multiple facets and optical effects. Particularly dedicated to design and interior furnishing professionals and suitable for a wide range of installation styles, Arrow is also made of Slavonian oak, a true classic of Woodco’s offering, and is available in eight different color variations.

Allows for the creation of original modular patterns and imaginative interweavings perfect for both large and small spaces.

Click on the image to discover the 8 shades of Arrow