Van Gogh Project MEDNAME
Résumé
This workshop aims to present the tools (from the mallet and the chisel to the tip and the pump drill) and the techniques of letter carving (hollow and relief), used by a stonecutter, especially during the Romanesque period. After a theoretical part dealing with the various kinds of stones, the preparation of a stone (roughing out, smoothing, tracing the ruling, preparing the letters) and the handling of the tools, the participants, provided with all of the tools, materials, and safety equipment, can try to cut an inscription in a limestone.