Old World Stone & Garden

25/11/2017

08/11/2016

Granite stone bench at Southern Grace. Madison Virginia. For sale

27/09/2016

Whoa

A sink on the corner?? Yes, we did it, and it creates a truly experience.

15/05/2016

STONE is a portrait of master stone carver Heather Lawson. VISIT http://www.lifesworkfilms.com COMMISSION HEATHER'S WORK / SHOW YOUR SUPPORT Heather…

04/03/2016

Carving Stone: Adam Paul Heller By Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo “I wish I was a slave to an age-old trade…” begins “Down in the Valley”, a song by the indie folk band The Head & the Heart. The song expresses a deep yearning to get back to your roots, and lead a more primitive existence. In …

04/03/2016

Collaboration of masons, geology, shapes and styles. 80m long Dry Stone ditch

03/01/2016

03/01/2016

Hard to believe anyone would be out working in the weather we have had these past few months, nevertheless here is DSWAI member Ken Curran who recently finished 80 meters of dry stone earth bank (or ditch) with the help of fellow DSWAI members Alex Panteleyenko, Karl Kennedy and Sunny Wieler. One of the many benefits of building 'dry stone' is that you can work in all kinds of crazy weather!!!

26/11/2015

Remember the Alamo.
http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Stone-work-at-Alamo-reveals-1700s-opening-6593785.php

Rather than relying on a rickety stand-alone scaffold made of timbers, the workers may have used a method known to the English as a put lock, employed in construction of European cathedrals, to build the wall, which now stands by a shaded arcade that was added in the 1930s. Myjer said a civil engine…

12/11/2015

28/10/2015

photo du jour:
Rotunda, Center Block of the Houses of Parliament, Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Ontario
photo: Jake Wright

28/10/2015

The end is somewhat hidden in the murk. Thankfully the forecast rain stayed away til late today and I was able to stay mostly dry.

I've now got the "last" 15m section to build. Almost there!

17/10/2015

An insight into the history, craft and splendour of dry stone walls, by Gerry Jones, written exclusively for Merchant & Makers.

06/09/2015

07/08/2015

photo du jour:
spiral water channel at Mandu, Madhya Pradesh, India
photo: Jeffrey Bale(?)

29/06/2015

photo du jour:
A feature of the recent (June 19-21, 2015) Tirconnell Stone Festival in Glencolmcille, Co Donegal, Ireland: a stone chair by brought by sculptor/stonemason Christian Helling and fellow stone masons from Cork and placed in the wall in memory of Martin Mc Brearty, one of their group who recently passed.
photo: Margaret Rose Cunningham

20/06/2015

Wall detail

31/05/2015

Sardinia
Another amazing structure by the pre-Roman culture on the Island.Nurnet-le Rete. Dei Nuraghi.

15/05/2015

Boring Boulder wall? No way!!!