One contractor spreads his experience with Spanish skip trowel technique.
A look in The Portland Cement Plaster Manual, published by the Portland Cement Association, showed the term, along with illustrations of several other textures that I thought were Spanish skip trowel. Not so! On a number of occasions, I have had customers request a Spanish-style skip trowel texture then explain what they wanted. Only on rare occasions have they been alike and, for the most part, did not look like the illustrations in the manual.