Craft, Trades & Making · Traditional & Heritage Crafts
A topic within Traditional & Heritage Crafts, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Craft, Trades & Making.
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Robert C. Mack & John P. Speweik
Argues that repointing historic masonry with mortar harder than the surrounding stone or brick causes that original material to fail, and sets out how to match a repair mortar's composition to what is already there.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Peter Nicholson
Sets out stereotomy — the geometry of cutting stone into arches, vaults and mouldings — as a branch of applied geometry that a mason must master before touching a chisel to an actual block.
link checked 17 Sept 2026