As the century progressed, stonemasons increasingly sold their products through catalogues and imported ready-made monuments to feed mass demand.
Or consider the case of an organized trade such as the stonemasons.
Evans then delves deeper into the development of drawing, describing the highly sophisticated stereotomic projections made to instruct stonemasons (stereotomy meaning, literally, the cutting of solids).
As regards stonemasons, there is no difficulty there; it is in the case of carpenters and painters where the difficulty lies.
There is the disease known as stonemasons' phthisis, in which the lungs become full of particles which set up a change resembling a tuberculous disease.
In any event, stonemasons themselves are not necessarily the right people to speak to on this matter.
One of the criteria for the selection of the projects concerned is the contribution they could make to the employment of stonemasons.
There are disturbing cases of headstones being offered at a price way above that which would be charged if one went directly to the stonemason.
