The Craft Of Stonemasonry

Author : Chris Daniels
Publisher : Crowood Press (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9781847973856
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Craft of Stonemasonry written by Chris Daniels and published by Crowood Press (UK). This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The craft of stonemasonry will never be a dying art. This book introduces the world of the artist craftsman, from the basic essentials of selecting stone, developing tool skills and techniques, to producing set work pieces of the highest quality to become part of the built heritage.

Author : Ian Cramb
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0811769879
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of the Stonemason written by Ian Cramb and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Ian Cramb was a fifth-generation stonemason who relied on traditional methods to create and restore beautiful stone structures. In this do-it-yourself manual for homeowners, masonry contractors, and restoration specialists, Cramb drew on his fifty years of life experience in the craft to cover restoration techniques for historic structures in the U.S. and Britain. The book covers various types of stone, stone-cutting, and traditional mortar mixes for walls, foundations, and buildings.

Author : Andrew Ziminski
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1473663954
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stonemason written by Andrew Ziminski and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stonemason's story of the building of Britain: part archaeological history, part deeply personal insight into an ancient craft. In his thirty-year career, stonemason Andrew Ziminski has worked on many of our greatest monuments. From Neolithic monoliths to Roman baths and temples, from the tower of Salisbury Cathedral to the engine houses, mills and aqueducts of the Industrial Revolution and beyond, The Stonemason is his very personal history of how Britain was built - from the inside out. Stone by different stone, culture by different culture, Andrew Ziminski (with his faithful whippet in tow) takes us on an unforgettable journey by river, road and sea through our countryside showing how the making of Britain's buildings offers an unexpected and new version of our island story. 'My school history lessons were focused around flat pages of facts, events and royal personalities, but for me it was the material aspects of the past, the tangible remnants left behind that were thrilling, and that it was these buildings and places, and learning how they worked, that really brought the past alive.'

Author : Peter Hill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317762509
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Practical Stone Masonry written by Peter Hill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical Stone Masonry is the first major book in nearly seventy years on the craft of the stonemason. Today the work of the stonemason is almost exclusively confined to the repair of historic buildings, requiring a full working knowledge of the detailed traditional craft practices relating to repairs. This book addresses that need. It covers the basic methods of working stone, the making of specialized tools, and, for the first time, a full analysis of the procedures for setting-out for repairs. A broad description of the nature and problems of stone also includes guidance on selection. In addition, the authors look at the causes of decay in stone and outline methods for repair of both stone and mortar. "Practical Stone Masonry" contains essential advice for working masons and apprentices, and all those engaged in planning and supervising such works. It includes: the basic methods of working stone; how to make specialized tools; the procedures for setting-out for repairs explained; and, the nature and problems of stone plus a guide to selection.

Author : Lew French
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 1423610962
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stone by Design written by Lew French and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2005-08-08 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 125 gorgeous photographs showcase the beauty of award-winning stonemason Lew French's work in eight different homes, illustrating how rounded fieldstone, gray slate, rough granite, and even curvy driftwood can be incorporated into stunning pieces of functional art.

Author : Cormac McCarthy
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679762809
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stonemason written by Cormac McCarthy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1995-08-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road comes a taut, expansively imagined drama about four generations of an American family. The setting is Louisville, Kentucky, in the 1970s. The Telfairs are stonemasons and have been for generations. Ben Telfair has given up his education to apprentice himself to his grandfather, Papaw, a man who knows that "true masonry is not held together by cement but...by the warp of the world." Out of the love that binds these two men and the gulf that separates them from the Telfairs who have forsaken—or dishonored—the family trade, Cormac McCarthy has crafted a drama that bears all the hallmarks of his great fiction: precise observation of the physical world; language that has the bite of common speech and the force of Biblical prose; and a breathtaking command of the art of storytelling. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.

Author : Seamus Murphy
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN 13 : 178841022X
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stone Mad written by Seamus Murphy and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2018-01-05 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1966, this acclaimed Irish classic is an account of time as an apprentice stonecarver by a craftsman who was one of Ireland’s most respected sculptors. The young Seamus Murphy, studying modelling at the Crawford School of Art in Cork in the 1920s, took the unusual step of apprenticing himself to a master stone carver to learn the ancient craft of the mason. ‘Stone Mad’ tells the story of his seven years of growing knowledge of the challenges and joys of stone – and of the men who worked it. His artistic feeling for quality responded to his workmates’ reverence for the ‘well made thing’. The result is a book of surpassing beauty, full of warmth, humour and profound perception.

Author : William R. Purchase
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781296491611
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Practical Masonry: A Guide to the Art of Stone Cutting, Comprising the Construction, Setting-Out, and Working of Stairs, Circular Work written by William R. Purchase and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-08 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Maude
Publisher : Tauris Parke Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9781848855472
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guided by a Stone-Mason written by Thomas Maude and published by Tauris Parke Paperbacks. This book was released on 2010-08-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly illustrated, accessible book presents a completely new look at cathedrals, abbeys and churches through the eyes of a vastly experienced working stonemason. Thomas Maude uses well-chosen historical and technical information, colorful anecdotes and his hands-on knowledge of building structures and technique to convey the excitement which they hold in store. This remarkable and engaging book will help any visitor understand and enjoy the medieval ecclesiastical buildings of Britain.

Author : Ian Cramb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615496559
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stonemason's Gospel According to Ian Cramb written by Ian Cramb and published by . This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: