The Art Of The Stonemason

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 : Ian Cramb
Publisher : Alan C Hood
ISBN 13 : 9780911469271
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of the Stonemason written by Ian Cramb and published by Alan C Hood. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a guidebook for masons doing new construction and also those engaged in restoration of historic stone structures. Beginning with a detailed discussion of building with "random rubble", which is the name for the early Celtic art of building with irregular stones bedded on mortar, Cramb proceeds to more complex projects such as fireplaces, stairs, arches, bridges and more. There is extensive treatment of various restoration techniques involved with historic structures both in the US and Britain, some as old as 1000 years. In addition, the author covers various types of stone, stone-cutting, etc. as well as using traditional mortar mixes, which have demonstrated their utility in stone walls and buildings which have lasted for many centuries. --Adapted from publisher description.

Author : Ian Cramb
Publisher : Betterway Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of the Stonemason written by Ian Cramb and published by Betterway Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fifth-generation stonemason discusses how to choose stone, build a wall on sloping ground, windowsills, fireplaces and so much more.

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 : 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 : 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 : John T. Morris
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 9781423610984
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stone Designs for the Home written by John T. Morris and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the work of one of the finest stonemasons practicing today, who employs the traditional art form of hand-chiseled masonry. Journey through 8 properties where Morris' exceptional work abounds while exploring his approach, thought processes and philosophy behind the stunning art he creates in stone.

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 : 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 : John Selmar Siebert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Stone-cutting and Masonry written by John Selmar Siebert and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: