This is an international, non-commercial, information and contact resource for people who work with natural stone. Our two main services are the Stone Sculpture Virtual Library and Stone Conversations (an email discussion group). We have been here since 1997.
What is About Stone?
Stone Sculpture Virtual Library
This is the most complete niche directory of its kind ... a comprehensive list of stone-related Internet sites, mostly suggested by our visitors. We have hundreds of links to the professional web sites of stone sculptors and carvers, suppliers of materials and tools, tips and instruction on working with natural stone. We update the directory every day, and check for dead links every week, which makes it uniquely reliable. Please add your own website to the database.
Stone Sculpture Virtual Library start page
Recent updates in the Stone Sculpture Virtual Library
Stone Conversations — an email discussion group
Conversations is an open email discussion group — the only place on the Internet which brings together people who work with stone in different countries and cultures. Our international membership includes sculptors, carvers, stonemasons, architects, geologists, quarry workers, artisans, students, professionals — all learning from each other.
The main focus of discussion is natural stone as a physical material (eg: comparative properties, geological formation, methods, tools, techniques) but also as a component of our working lives (eg: quarries, suppliers, markets, workshops, training), and as a material with cultural connotations (eg: landscapes, architecture, art). We invite everyone who works with stone, whether by hand, eye or imagination, to join the group.
Stone Conversations start page
Current and archived posts (more than 7500 pages of solid stone info)
- Archive 13: Oct 2006 - (in preparation)
- Archive 12: Apr 2006 - Oct 2006 (606 pages)
- Archive 11: Jan 2006 - Apr 2006 (710 pages)
- Archive 10: Oct 2005 - Dec 2005 (561 pages)
- Archive 9: Apr 2005 - Sep 2005 (813 pages)
- Archive 8: Jan 2005 - Mar 2005 (722 pages)
- Archive 7: Sept 2004 - Dec 2004 (624 pages)
- Archive 6: June 2004 to Sept 2004 (666 pages)
- Archive 5: Feb 2004 to May 2004 (909 pages)
- Archive 4: June 2003 to Jan 2004 (340 pages)
- Archive 3: June 2002 to May 2003 (604 pages)
- Archive 2: June 2001 to May 2002 (404 pages)
- Archive 1: June 1998 to May 2001 (920 pages)
FAQ: Where is Learning Stone?
This website was known as Learning Stone from 1997 until 6 October 2004, when we renamed it About Stone. The learningstone.net domain was then transferred to the Portland Sculpture and Quarry Trust. About Stone uses the same IP address (216.92.36.76) as the old Learning Stone. It's the same website in the same place. Please update your bookmarks.
