James Taite

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Tooling are those diagonal marks left by the chisel; was calling attention to how skillfully the mason here mimicked the character of the old tooling on the bellcast part. Where his cut intersected old toolmarks he took the care to complete them on the new stone. And that joint is less than 1mm!

The nose of the wash here makes a right angle to turn back toward the wall: called a return for obvious reasons. And the portion of the stone at which the return ends (in this case just a flat surface) is the equally unimaginative stop.

A wash or weathering is a generic term for a stone that is exposed or projecting, and so washed by the rain or exposed to the weather.

Bellcast just refers to the shape of the weathering surface, a double curve like the profile of a bell.

Jargon! Be happy to!

A Dutchman is a repair by which a damaged part of stone is replaced with a new piece, as an alternative to replacing the whole; the aim is to faithfully reconstruct the form, profile, texture of the undamaged original.

The Unintended Art Of Others

The shipyard painters who cleaned their brushes on the shipping container they store their paint in.
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beaut of a Dutchman on the return stop of a bellcast wash

look at how well the tooling carries from the old piece to the new just fucking beautiful

Tried to stop my bamboo from marching. Can’t. Up the hill down the hill. Think it just loves Sousa.

The fresco restoration work marks the culmination of a series of interventions we have carried out on this sanctuary since 2006.
In 2008, I designed an extension to the church and we restored the adjoining house.
In 2011, we designed an access path for wheelchair users.
And now, the frescoes.

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Stone timber slab demonstraton in London

Concrete is not T.I.N.A. (there is no alternative)
Stone-timber floor demonstration in London.
The alternatives to anthropocene construction are popping up everywhere now.
foto: Bamberger Natursteinwerke
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The Stonemasonry Company Ltd Stonemasonry Company, creating luxury stone staircases

Definitely team arch, but also love the use of tensioned stone like this. And a fraction of the emissions of concrete or steel structure. Great research done by www.thestonemasonrycompany.co.uk

into the guts

I’d say not at all, given how many visitors Romanesque and early Gothic cathedrals receive every year.

Sorry but I’ve only been to like 15 European cities where I breeze through the derivative Renaissance architecture to get to the good Romanesque and Gothic stuff.

I would like to skip the ringside seat at this debauched circus and go straight to the empty field where the tent once stood.

As someone who now needs a kidney transplant myself (due to damage caused quite suddenly by an autoimmune disease), here’s some information about becoming a living donor 🥰

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Ugborough Church, Devon. Medieval roof boss depicting a blacksmith #woodensday

there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all

Oh you think the Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald is funny? My father was killed in a Gordon Lightfoot song you son of a bitch (not that one; it was Sundown)

A portrait painting of a young man, the paint is blurred, dragged, the surface scratched & heavily worked. The face is pinks & browns, a hint of a black jacket collar against a smeared & scratched gray background.

The back side of the Matthew painting is horizontal lath with plaster oozing between the wood slats, a vertical stud in the center, 2 horizontal studs, off-set, and a vertical copper water pipe running up the left side.

An old work- "Matthew (rain)", oil, plaster, drywall, wood, copper pipe, 12x14", 2006, (obverse & reverse.) I'm putting this up for sale at it's original 2006 price- $450(Cdn) (shipping within Canada only.) #art

if there is a god these fucks will burn in hell

Mediaeval Mythbusting Blog #18: Sex, Stonemasons & the Sacred - Triskele Heritage 26 September 2022 In 1517, a flamboyant new gatehouse was under construction at Canterbury Cathedral. Built in a late-flowering example of the Perpendicular Gothic style, the Christchurch Gateway feat...

If only someone had written a blog and a book chapter to clear all this nonsense up...
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How Brutalism Became Both a Utopian Dream and a Dystopian Meme Brutalism, an architectural movement associated with state power and science fiction, is perpetually misunderstood – yet it has left an indelible imprint on popular culture.

in honor of the reopening of the met breuer, sotheby's, its new tenant, let me write the introductory text on brutalism and its many afterlives www.sothebys.com/en/articles/...

did you have chatgpt write that one for you bud

I was flipping through this book the other day, and while it’s awesome, it also felt in a weird way like a missed opportunity—so for no reason at all here’s a (probably long) thread on plant morphology:

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