Seth Thomas, an instructor at the Dry Stone Conservancy, shapes limestone during a workshop in Jessamine County on Nov. 23, 2024. Beth Musgrave bmusgrave@herald-leader.com Don Hopper pivoted over ...

Gerrow is practicing a craft called dry-laid stone masonry that goes back to the early 1800s in Central Kentucky. “It is a lot like a puzzle, sort of like a free-form puzzle, I guess.

For Tufnell dry stone masonry is aesthetic, ecologically sound and creates a sense of personal perspective about the world we live in. "For me a major benefit of dry stone walling is that there is ...

to advance the dry stone masonry craft, and to create a center for training and expertise nationwide. The Conservancy has conducted training and restoration projects for National Park Service ...

I’ve done a couple of bridges. Anything you can make out of masonry, you can do the same with dry stone. How green is dry stone walling? Potentially very green. Most of the walls I build are fie ...

Dry stone masonry—a technique dating back thousands of years—is being used to help restore the rocky terraces that have enabled agricultural activity in communities across Italy. How those ...

That’s how old some of the granite is that he used to build the dry stone wall on his property in Holyoke. “I’m my own worst critic, but I love the way this came out and I’m proud it’s ...

The aim of the project is to create a digital archive designed as a repository resource for the conservation, transfer and dissemination of dry-stone masonry knowledge and practices. More so ...

A trullo home (singular word for the house) is composed of limestone that’s held together with dry-stone masonry and is “honestly something like a fairy tale home,” reports the blog An ...

Traditionally these houses were built using dry stone masonry, without any mortar or cement. This style of construction is also prevalent in the surrounding countryside where most of the fields ...

The passages are roughly 1m wide and 1.5m high. The walls are constructed of dry stone masonry and the roof comprises large flat stone lintels spanning between the walls. Although souterrains are ...