For more than 150 years, granite has shaped life in Barre. Generations of central Vermonters have quarried, cut and carved ...
Editor s note: This is the second in a series of articles on Ernest Ryland Fletcher and his influence on the industry. Paul Wood s column appears monthly on these pages. By PAUL WOOD In 1902, Ernest ...
Awatercolorist stationed with her easel on the banks of a river. A potter intently focused on the wheel, hands immersed in cool wet clay. An oil painter positioning his still-life items at just the ...
Anita Denholm is carving a 2-metre-tall statue from grey granite that she says will be "fairly permanent". "This piece will outlast all of us, being the granite that it is — it's one of the hardest ...
Tucked away inside Szobrasz Studio in Taylorsville, a self-taught artist — and now something of a YouTube star — coaxes works of art from natural materials. Using wood, horn, fossil ivories, bone and ...
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A popular top polisher for polishing the curved tops of monuments, the vertical polishing machine, was introduced around 1890 by the Concord Axle Co. It was suspended from an overhead shed beam and ...
Sculptor Clint Button recently put the finishing touches on a large granite statue for a chapel at Florida's University of Tampa. He worked on the sculpture with a Mobius band representing infinite ...