"The main thing is that I'm a woman and a lot of companies have told me 'you can't do this because you're a girl - you're not ...

A Broken Hill project teaches labourers valuable skills in stonemasonry and building restoration while transforming an iconic ...

My introduction to building a stone wall, like beginnings in so many homesteading skills, came unexpectedly, urgently, and at the wrong time. It was a rare clear morning during a rainy spring in ...

Third-year stonemasonry apprentice Harriet Bailey had not considered the trade as a career until she came to York as a university student. After working in a number of admin roles she did not ...

Such is the paradoxical calling of stonemasonry, a fading craft that was not only essential in the rise of global architecture, but also one that remains crucial to the preservation of countless ...

And here I am, working outside with my hands.” His stonemasonry experience in college became just a teaser for him — it wasn’t enough to work it out here, he felt the call to go back to his ...

Conservation stonemasonry is different from typical stonemasonry, focusing on methods to preserve or recreate ancient stone buildings and other structures, but the same skills could be applied to ...

For Pierre Bidaud, the creative director of The Stonemasonry Company, a London-based designer and stone fabricator, the AEC industry is simply looking at the material the wrong way. The industry does ...

Heritage buildings earned Kingston, Ont., its nickname, the "Limestone City" — but starting this spring the local program training the workers needed to maintain so many landmarks will stop ...

They hope the slabs will offer new insights into the craft of stonemasonry and 13th century life more broadly, according to a statement from the university. Tom Cousins, an archaeologist at ...

Harriet Bailey, apprentice stonemason and William Dixon, apprentice joiner, at York Minster York Minster has cut an impressive figure on the city's skyline for more than 800 years - a testament to ...