First, in the interest of full disclosure, let it be said that I -- that would be Dennis -- do not have a close, nurturing, loving relationship with power tools. Oh sure, the chain saw and I have an ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Two brothers set about chiseling slabs of milky gray limestone, each using a hammer bluntly pounding the end of a long, thin, and sharp instrument ...

Chris Pascoe watched a Harry Potter movie recently and was transfixed by something other than the action. As he watched Harry and his friends running atop cloisters at the Gloucester Cathedral in ...

With limestone, there's no sanding or polishing; the mark of the chisel is evident. At this year's Indiana Limestone Symposium at Bybee Stone Co. in Ellettsville, the stone you will carve, the tools ...

Nestled high in the Colorado Rockies, the annual MARBLE/marble Stone Carving Symposium has drawn sculptors, both professional and aspiring, for decades. It took around a decade for that seed to ...

XOCHIACA, Mexico -- The sound of hammers and chisels striking stone rings out on most Sundays in the cemetery of ancient Xochiaca, a village swallowed up decades ago by the urban sprawl of Mexico City ...

Based on the book "Built from Stone: The Westerly Granite Story," CARVED FROM STONE: LEGACY OF A GRANITE TOWN shows Westerly granite as the "gold standard," with hundreds of blacksmiths, carvers, ...

One of the most unusual programs in the state of Vermont is The Stone Bench Project, sponsored by the Carving Studio and Sculpture Center and funded by various communities and sponsoring organizations ...