Based on the book "Built from Stone: The Westerly Granite Story," CARVED FROM STONE: LEGACY OF A GRANITE TOWN shows Westerly granite as the "gold standard," with hundreds of blacksmiths, carvers, ...

Eighteen thousand people worked in the Barre granite industry at its peak in 1929 — quarrying the rock, carving and shaping the stone, creating the tools used in the stone sheds. These days, that ...

Awatercolorist stationed with her easel on the banks of a river. A potter intently focused on the wheel, hands immersed in cool wet clay. An oil painter positioning his still-life items at just the ...

A granite carving at Granite City Park in Hallowell was created by Mark Herrington. “Flowing Through” was carved from several pieces of Hallowell granite. (Daryn Slover/Staff Photographer) Hallowell, ...

Tucked away inside Szobrasz Studio in Taylorsville, a self-taught artist — and now something of a YouTube star — coaxes works of art from natural materials. Using wood, horn, fossil ivories, bone and ...

This may be a lampshade, but light isn’t what it does best—because this new interpretation of the classic industrial lamp is carved from a solid piece of granite. The brainchild of AStudio, the Mika ...

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... If you have spent any time around Larimer Square, you have seen the Granite Building, whether you recognize it by name or not. It’s the four-story presence ...

KAPAA, Hawaii — It is the only all-granite, hand-carved Hindu temple in the West built without power tools or electricity, and it's nestled on one of the smaller islands in Hawaii surrounded by lush ...