How to Build Dry-Stacked Stone Walls - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How to Build Dry-Stacked Stone Walls write by John Shaw-Rimmington. This book was released on 2016. How to Build Dry-Stacked Stone Walls available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This text shows how to build a wall using the traditional method of dry stone masonry in which carefully selected stones are properly stacked and held together without mortar. As well as being beautiful, a dry stone wall is stronger, more stable and more resistant to climate than a mortared wall. More than 100 full colour photographs of walls, bridges and decorative garden elements in various steps of construction are presented as well as illustrations that show the steps and cross sections that highlight the building methods.
Building Stone Walls
Building Stone Walls - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Building Stone Walls write by John Vivian. This book was released on 2014-10-24. Building Stone Walls available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rustic and charming or stately and proud, a well-built stone wall can add personality and beauty to your property. John Vivian’s lively approach and step-by-step instructions encourage you to transform a pile of rocks into an enduring landscape feature with gates, retaining walls, or stiles to suit your needs. Whatever unique challenges come with your site — poor drainage, sloping ground, or low-quality rubble material — Vivian offers innovative designs and reproducible methods to help you build a beautiful, long-lasting wall.
Stone by Design
Stone by Design - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stone by Design write by Lew French. This book was released on 2005-08-08. Stone by Design available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. More than 125 gorgeous photographs showcase the beauty of award-winning stonemason Lew French's work in eight different homes, illustrating how rounded fieldstone, gray slate, rough granite, and even curvy driftwood can be incorporated into stunning pieces of functional art.
Stone by Stone
Stone by Stone - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stone by Stone write by Robert Thorson. This book was released on 2009-05-26. Stone by Stone available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There once may have been 250,000 miles of stone walls in America's Northeast, stretching farther than the distance to the moon. They took three billion man-hours to build. And even though most are crumbling today, they contain a magnificent scientific and cultural story-about the geothermal forces that formed their stones, the tectonic movements that brought them to the surface, the glacial tide that broke them apart, the earth that held them for so long, and about the humans who built them. Stone walls layer time like Russian dolls, their smallest elements reflecting the longest spans, and Thorson urges us to study them, for each stone has its own story. Linking geological history to the early American experience, Stone by Stone presents a fascinating picture of the land the Pilgrims settled, allowing us to see and understand it with new eyes.
Rock Fences of the Bluegrass
Rock Fences of the Bluegrass - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rock Fences of the Bluegrass write by Carolyn Murray-Wooley. This book was released on 2014-07-11. Rock Fences of the Bluegrass available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Gray rock fences built of ancient limestone are hallmarks of Kentucky's Bluegrass landscape. Why did Kentucky farmers turn to rock as fence-building material when most had earlier used hardwood rails? Who were the masons responsible for Kentucky's lovely rock fences and what are the different rock forms used in this region? In this generously illustrated book, Carolyn Murray-Wooley and Karl Raitz address those questions and explore the background of Kentucky's rock fences, the talent and skill of the fence masons, and the Irish and Scottish models they followed in their work. They also correct inaccurate popular perceptions about the fences and use census data and archival documents to identify the fence masons and where they worked. As the book reveals, the earliest settlers in Kentucky built dry-laid fences around eighteenth-century farmsteads, cemeteries, and mills. Fence building increased dramatically during the nineteenth century so that by the 1880s rock fences lined most roads, bounded pastures and farmyards throughout the Bluegrass. Farmers also built or commissioned rock fences in New England, the Nashville Basin, and the Texas hill country, but the Bluegrass may have had the most extensive collection of quarried rock fences in North America. This is the first book-length study on any American fence type. Filled with detailed fence descriptions, an extensive list of masons' names, drawings, photographs, and a helpful glossary, it will appeal to folklorists, historians, geographers, architects, landscape architects, and masons, as well as general readers intrigued by Kentucky's rock fences.
