Scottish master craftsman looks around at other wallers work to generate world wide interest in the ancient art of gathering rocks into field boundaries and beautiful features in stone.

Sunday, November 02, 2008

Roctober in Canada 5


The outstanding feature at the Thanksgiving Festival at Cornish Hollow was this Cabanne. It was constructed without any support inside . The roof was made by adding diminishing circles of rocks in a cantilever style. The final building was fantastic. It looked and felt like something really special from medieval Europe. I suspect there is nothing else quite like it in Canada.

One has to admire John Shaw-Rimmington and his team of master craftsmen for their skill and hard work. Over a thousand visitors came during the festival and experienced a magnificent three days of entertainment.

To read all about it and the very varied activities going on in North America visit http://www.dswac.ca/

2 Comments:

Blogger kimrennin said...

Hip, railroad-car-size establishment specializing in Cornwall’s answer to the potpie, the pasty (pronounced pass-tee). Traditionally, these jumbo turnovers are filled with steak, onion, rutabaga and potato, and are referred to as oggies.
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kimrennin
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12:51 AM

 
Blogger norman haddow said...

More dry stone entries on my new site
www.wallswithoutmortar.blogspot.com

Norman

12:11 AM

 

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