Stonecutting

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The Art of

Stonecutting

Stonemasonry or stonecraft is the creation of buildings, structures or sculpture using stone as the primary material. It is one of the oldest professions in human history. Stonecutting encompasses a range of skills, from the extraction and processing of stone, to carving, conservation and monumental work.

"When nothing seems to help, I go and look at the stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without so much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the blow that did it, but all that had gone before."

Jacob Riis