The Dry Stone Walling Association of Great Britain launched its Craftsman Certification Scheme way back in the 1980’s making it the first organisation to offer formal qualifications in dry stone walling. Since then the scheme has flourished and developed in to what is still the most respected and coveted craft certification scheme available in dry…
The great debate in the dry stone walling world is always whether to course or not and there are two distinct schools of thought. On one hand you have the coursed wallers, predominantly based in the Pennines where the local sandstone lends itself to level bedded, regular coursed work and then you have the random…
Within these posts I will obviously draw on my experience as a professional dry stone waller with over twenty five years involvement in the craft. I have chosen this medium in which to express my opinions as I find Face Book and other forums too contentious. Any comments I make are only my opinions, I…
