#stonemason

Happy Pride from the Mystery Kids!

Yeah I'm in the spirit this year, so I scribbled up some up some UFF Pride cuteness. By then, the polycule is in full force, along with their obligatory ace friend/brother. Don't really have much else to say about this one other than they're cute and in love lmao

(btw, if it isn't self-explainatory, Dipper, Paz, and Connie are all bi/poly, Steven and Mabel are pan/poly, and Stonemason is Ace/Aro. And before any of ya'll ask, no there's no fucking incest in the polycule, get the fuck out of here and stop asking stupid questions).

(Normal/non fucking eyesore version under the cut)

In the digital art dep't: A first-light test render of Stonemason's newish "Porto Bella" set.

CRAFTS — 214/262 — Stonemason

Stone masons were engaged in the quarrying and dressing of stone. Their activities included quarrying stone blocks from the rock-face, splitting them into smaller pieces, grinding, cutting, polishing and dressing them to make building blocks or vault elements. The first mention of an organized stonemasons’ guild in Bohemia dates from the 14th century. The patron saints of quarriers and stonemasons are St Roch and St Joseph, and in places also St Barbara and St Procopius. Stone-working found application mainly in the construction industry. The mason’s mark was a graphic symbol, though not the maker’s signature, on the surface of a finished stone piece. The number of finished and marked pieces determined the payment due. Each mason either attained his mark, or had it allocated to him at a particular point in his apprenticeship, and then kept it for life.

TRIVIA

— Masons’ marks were part of a varied and adaptable system rather than a single fixed practice. Their use can be traced back thousands of years, and even in the Middle Ages they differed between regions, workshops, and individual building sites.

These marks served a practical purpose during construction, such as indicating the correct placement or sequence of stones, sometimes using numbering systems on adjoining blocks. Marks could also indicate the origin or quality of the stone, or identify a particular workshop or team of masons. The system was not formally recorded, and there is no evidence of a universal system. Marks could be assigned for a single building project, reused, or adapted from those of a master, and similar designs appear across widely separated regions without necessarily indicating the same craftsman. In some cases, groups of marks suggest work by teams of stonemasons.

At the church of St. Barbara in Kutná Hora the masons who completed the vault in 1548 displayed their marks on the ceiling (of the vaults) and painted them within shields alongside their initials and the date.

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