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, ...
NORFOLK — Gravestones stand quietly in cemeteries around the nation and the world, symbols of a family’s loss and remembrance of a loved one. Older monuments are often made of limestone, marble and ...
It's not news that digital forms of communication are replacing hand-written letters and diaries with text messages and Facebook entries. Even the ancient art of carving an epitaph on a gravestone is ...
Old Vermont cemeteries have stories to tell, and they are cut deep into the stone of almost every grave. Civilizations have always tried to address the nature of life and death in how they memorialize ...
Letterpress and letter carving expert Jesse Marsolais gave a demonstration of stone carving in conjunction with the Haas Arts Library’s new exhibition “Learning from Letterforms: Past & Present.” ...
Tucked away inside Szobrasz Studio in Taylorsville, a self-taught artist — and now something of a YouTube star — coaxes works of art from natural materials. Using wood, horn, fossil ivories, bone and ...
A small town in Central Mexico is home to around 200 open-air carving workshops, from which an astonishing array of sculptures continuously emerges. Leonel Uribe Franco works on a carving in an ...
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