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Stonexus MAGAZINE stonexus MAGAZINE NUMBER VI spring/summer 2006 contents EDITOR / PHOTO EDITOR Tomas Lipps GRAPHIC PRODUCTION departments features Copygraphics of Santa Fe EDITORIAL . 3 NESQUIVAH - THE PIERCEMENT . 12 The Assyrians are coming! Printed and published in the USA PHOTOS to the EDITOR . 4 by Ithamar Perath by THE STONE FOUNDATION Timothy Smith, Robert Waller, 116 Lovato Lane, Santa Fe NM USA 87505 Fraser Muirhead, Juliet Golden, MT. PLEASANT . 17 www.stonefoundation.org Bobby Watt T he creation of a modern-day folly email: [email protected] by John Shaw Rimmington telephone/fax: 505-989-4644 REVIEWS . 8 STONE BY DESIGN by Lew French reprints THE ART OF THE STONEMASON by Ian Cramb STONE DIARIES . 26 POETRY . 16 A monument to lost love OUR ADVERTISERS: DRY WALLING by John Walker RHINO TOOLS by Carol Shields SCULPTURE....................................19 STEREOTOMY . 56 SELECT STONE Kate Thomson & Hironori Katagiri TROW AND HOLDEN TOOLS A classic technical manual of stonecutting LANDSCAPE/HARDSCAPE . 22 by Arthur Willard French EAST BY NORTHWEST Robert Murase’s Santi-ya by JM Cava miscellanae TEKTONIKA GALLERY . 29 ST. STEPHEN . 2 ANNOUNCEMENT . 64 THE FIRST TOOL . 3 Front cover: Gurness Broch, on the eastern THE SCOTTISH ACCOUNTANT . 28 coast of the Orkney mainland, an Iron Age Stonework Symposium 2006 tower around which a village grew. The lane leading to the imposing entryway, and the entryway itself, seem designed to impress visitors. Low-roofed cells flanking the open- ing are assumed to have housed guard- dogs. photo: T L Opposite left: The Writers’ Museum, Edin- burgh, dedicated to Scotland’s noted men of letters: Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson. Just off the Royal Mile leading to Edinburgh castle, this build- ing, erected in 1622 and modified in the 18th century, exhibits the structural com- plexity and romantic expressionism that flourishes here and there in the generally conservative architecture of the city. The stonemasons whose responsibility it was to realize the plans for this structure must have welcomed the challenge. photo: T L Basket-handle arches left to right: Otero Mesa, New Mexico and Loch Ness, Scotland stone (ston) n. nex-us (nek' sas) n., pl. nexus or nex-us-es. 1. a. Concreted earthy or mineral matter; rock. 1. A means of connection; a link or tie. b. Such concreted matter of a particular type. 2. A connected series or group. Often used in combination. 3. The core or center. 2. A small piece of rock. 3. Rock or piece of rock shaped or finished mag-a-zine (mag-úh-zeen), n. for a particular purpose, especially a piece 1. A periodical containing a collection of of rock that is used in construction. articles, stories, pictures, or other features stonexus SPRING/SUMMER 2006 1 editorial To new readers and new member/subscribers: Until now, STONEXUS Magazine has been an in- welcome and bon appetit. We hope you enjoy house publication, distributed only to Stone this latest serving of stone-lore. Foundation members. Early this year a major policy decision was made—to make it available To member/subscribers of longer standing: your to the general public. Beginning with this issue patience is appreciated. It’s been a year since STONEXUS will be displayed for sale at some STONEXUS V came out and that’s a long wait. stone supplier premises and selected bookstores. Starting in 2007 there will be several options It was a busy year and a hectic one. Besides the available. One may buy single issues, become a demands of organizing the annual gathering last subscriber or join the Stone Foundation, the October and the distractions of earning a living, magazine being one of the entitlements of mem- the structuring, destructuring and restructuring bership. of the Stone Foundation that has been going on since the Symposium absorbed considerable in by Timothy Smith, Bobby Watt, Juliet Golden, This should result in more readers for the maga- time, attention and energy. As it happened, the Robert Waller, and someone (or someplace?) zine and, eventually, more members of the Stone character of the organization and the future of known as Verdabbio. Fraser Muirhead made Foundation community. the magazine were at stake. We’re pleased to available some of the fine architectural photo- report that the situation has been resolved, that graphs he has taken during his peregrinations You can help: If there is a stone supplier or book the Stone Foundation survives with its spirit around Europe; expect to see more of his work in store in your area that would be a good place to intact and that STONEXUS will continue on its the future. Others, several others, also sent in display the magazine for sale, send us the name evolutionary path to being the best magazine it excellent photos but space was limited. and contact information, along with a contact can be. person if possible. You might even show them Ithamar Perath’s tale of how an ingenious/labo- one of your copies of the magazine. Please assist You may notice that there are two new depart- rious ploy saved a city is a gem. Dry stone enthu- us in this, thanks. ments, LANDSCAPE/HARDSCAPE and SCULP- siast John Shaw Rimmington shared one of his TURE, showcasing various aspects of those areas. most recent adventures. And out of the blue Keep well and keep up the good work. Also, there are two other departments for which came a CD of scans from a Bill Gallagher, not submissions are encouraged: T & T (Tips and even a member/subscriber (he is now). This Editorially yours, Techniques) and I.M.H.O. (In My Humble antique manual on stereotomy or stone-cutting Opinion). The titles are self-explanatory, and techniques will be of interest to many. Good on certainly there are individuals reading this who you, Bill. And thanks to whoever it was (?) who would do well to share some of their experience, sent in the kinetic little dry stone walling poem by savvy, ideas, opinions. John Walker. There was a good crop of PHOTOS-TO-THE- Also, neither last or least, an expression of grati- EDITOR, but not much MAIL—please, express tude for our advertiser/benefactors, Trow and Tomas Lipps yourselves. Space constraints (64 pages is the Holden Tools, Select Stone Inc, and Rhino Tools; economic ideal) led to the deletion of the mail and to SF member John Henry, the genial, stone- P.S. On the visible sides of the worktable in the pages for this issue as well as several pages of mad gentleman who financed the expedition to photo above are two of four attributes consid- photos and articles, original and reprinted, that Scotland last summer which provided the photos ered important to the practice of the craft of accumulated. This material constitutes a head in the TEKTONIKA Gallery feature. Such patron- stonemasonry, Patience and Fortitude. Readers start on the next issue—and yes, there will be age is always welcome; as Brendan Behan said, are invited to guess what the other two might be. two issues produced this year. “May the giving hand never falter.” Lithophil- The first one to do so will receive free member- anthropy of this sort could enable future travels ship in 2007 and a T-shirt of his or her choosing. Thanks to the contributors who made this issue along The Old Stone Road—and future color in All of the suggestions will be printed in the next what it is. Much appreciated are the photos sent these pages. issue. stonexus SPRING/SUMMER 2006 3 2 of 4 pages TIMOTHY SMITH, Matera, Italy PHOTOS TO THE T L EDITOR Balfour Castle, Shapinsay Island, Orkney FRASER MUIRHEAD, The Romanesque Abbey of St. Pierre at Moissac VERDABBIO BOBBY WATT Inukshuk, Canadian Embassy, Tokyo, Japan 4 stonexus SPRING/SUMMER 2006 The Lion Monument Just northeast of Lowenplatz is one of the high- lights of Luzern, the terribly sad Lion Monument. This dying beast draped over his shield, with a broken spear sticking out of his flank, was hewn out of a cliff face in 1821 to commemorate the 700 Swiss mercenaries killed in Paris in 1792. On August 10 that year, French revolutionaries stormed the royal palace, the Tuileries; in the face of the mob, the Swiss palace guards were ordered to lay down their arms by Louis XVI and were subsequently mas- sacred. This would be a movingly tranquil spot, with its foliage and gently rippling pool in front, were it not for the fact that it’s the single most touristed place in the entire city. from The Rough Guide to Switzerland ROBERT WALLER Zio Basile Our builder’s wife’s uncle Basile arrived this morning to get started on some traditional Pugliese dry stone walling. Aged 85, Zio Basile clocked in at 7:00 am this morning and is still at it, although he’s now removed his waistcoat! He plans to chop up all of these big blocks (with an axe and hammer) into smaller ones, then build the wall(s). At lunch- time, I was just in time to stop him clambering over the 2 metre garden barrier cos he couldn’t figure out how to open the gate! JANE (the friend of Juliet Golden who forwarded this to us) Lace wall, Shetland mainland, Scotland T L stonexus SPRING/SUMMER 2006 5 THE ART OF THE STONEMASON For many centuries, the secrets and techniques of the stonemason were passed down from craftsman to craftsman, father to son. Ian Cramb is a fifth-generation stonemason who relies on traditional methods to create or restore beautiful structures that will last for hundreds of years.
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