sbourne, 19 days ago to Lichen

We visited the Dun Beag broch, an iron age roundhouse fort. Imagine having dry stonewall skills so good that your works still persist thousands of years later!

#DryStoneWall #broch #lichen #lichensubscribe #Skye #roadtrip

Detail of the broch wall, painted in white and orange lichens, and showing how the large blocks of stone fit tightly together despite their irregular shapes, with the gaps chinked with smaller bits of stone.

JohnBloor, 5 months ago to art

An old print today. This is Tin Mine from 2018, a three colour screenprint.

It's inspired by Cornwall (where are all the Cornish people on Mastodon?) and is quite abstract.

#cornwall #screenprint #printmaking #PrintmakersOfMastodon #handprinted #art #illustration #hare #fence #DryStoneWall #gorse #tor #TinMine

JohnBloor, 5 months ago to Battlemaps

This print is called Along the Coastal Path and is a five colour print.

It is not of a specific place but is from my imagination. In this print I really started to combine stylised elements with textures.

#cornwall #coast #path #fence #stonewall #drystonewall #sea #tinmine #grass #printmaking #print #handprinted #handmade #PrintmakersOfMastodon

kristiedegaris, 8 months ago to sustainability

It's wonderful to be able to 'recycle' stone. On this job, we were able to reinstate this small entrance wall using stone from the original mill building that once stood next to the river.

We added a flat cope to the wall, and as I was building, a group of walkers came down the hill, stopped to chat, and posed for photos sitting on this little seat. How lovely!

#Drystone #DrystoneWall #Traditionalcraft #sustainability #Stone

A drystone wall runs from a tall copper beech tree towards the roof of a cottage. The scene is quaint.
A drystone wall with a break in the cope stones. The stones are tightly stacked and behind the wall are trees.

kristiedegaris, 9 months ago to random

It's been a long time since I spent five days stacking stone and I can tell you, my lower back is very glad that it's the weekend.

Great progress this week, and we'll be back on Monday to finish building. Excited to add a wee feature to this structure too.

This wall has lots of shims, snecks and is built in a 'random' style.