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    • 1   What is Reductive Thinking?
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    • 1  The Unspoken
    • 2  Vision versus Touch
    • 3  Touch: a lost sense?
    • 4  Stone and Touch
    • 5  Tactile Perception
    • 6  The skill and the habit
    • 7  Teaching Tacit Skills
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    • On a Raised Beach by Hugh MacDiarmid
    • Stones by George Quasha
    • Genesis of a Sculpture by Brian Clark
    • Stones by John Murray
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    • 1  Primary Sources
    • 2  Other Sources
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    • 1  Attraction to the material
    • 2  Extracting the stone
    • 3  Moving Stone
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    • 6  Life of a Quarry
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    • 1  Introduction | Stone Workers
    • 2  Cathedral Workshops & Masons'Training
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    • 5  Amplifiers
    • 6  Sculptors
    • 7  Building Stone Walls
    • 8  Drawing Multiplicities
    • 9  Restoration Repositioning
    • 10  Moving As Observation
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    • 1  Introduction | Tools
    • 2  Shifting Balance and the Given Order
    • 3  The Hand
    • 4  Engagement
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    • 6  Technique
    • 7  Stone carving tools - introduction
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    • 10  Measuring devices
    • 11  Actions and Procedures
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Tetsuroh Tanabe, Stone mason, Japan | Interview

“a successful stone mason….it is not about how much money he makes, but his technique”. Tetsuroh Tanabe is a master craftsman from a long lineage of stone masons. In this interview he explains his families history in the stone industry and the work that he carries out today as a practicing mason and a teacher to the next generation of stone carvers.

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