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Getting ready to carve a poem around a seating area in Skipton wood
Today we went to Skpton to get ready for a commission we've been asked to do for the Woodland Trust. We've been asked to carve a poem...
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The Making Of The Ale Stone
We were asked by our good friend Alan McEwen from Dandelion Stone Troughs if we could make a table top in the form of a millstone. This...
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Marble Fingers #2
As you may remember just before we broke up for Christmas a gentleman came to the workshop with a statue of a little girl that had been...
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Marble Fingers
Hope you're all enjoying the festive period, we definetly are. Just before we broke up for Christmas a gentleman came to our workshop...
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Testimonial from Mother Shiptons Cave, Knaresborough
​ “Swales in the Dales created a carved stone to be placed within the Mother Shipton’s Cave park in Knaresborough. This creates added...
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Revisiting the stone I carved at Mother Shiptons Cave Knearsbrough
Today Sunday 23rd October 2016 me and my family went back to Mother Shiptons Cave to revisit the stone I carved back in July. It was a...
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Leigh Mill House Grindstone House Name
Today October 21st 2016 I finished the carving of a house name for my good friends Alan and Christine McEwen from Dandelion Stone...
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Bracken Ghyll Golf Club
Today Wednesday October 19th 2016 I completed the carving on the huge lump of Yorkshire stone up at Bracken Ghyll Golf Club, Addingham,...
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Questions We Frequently Get Asked
Quite often, people ask us about what we do and our trade, so here are some answers to those frequently asked questions… What is stone...
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Working at Mother Shipton's Cave
We've had the up most pleasure to be able to work with the owner of Mother Shipton's Cave at Knearsbough, North Yorkshire. They had a...