Today we had the chance to meet Richard Kindersley, a very nice and friendly stonecarver. They did a range of work with stone, standing stones, to signs, to memorials. I really liked the way they played with ligatures, they made the stones much more lively and playful. One thing about stonecarving that terrifies me is that you cant mess up! The marks you make are "set in stone" there's no turning back (yikes). We watched his apprentice carving while he talked to us, she said she got about a line a day done. He took us up the spiral staircase to show us a little bit more how things worked and showed us his library. He had tons of books and gave us a bit of advice that was to buy a book a month to start building our own libraries. I had asked him if he had any books donated to him because there were so many, but he assured me they were all his.
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