Want to be a landscape gardener?
Among other things, you’ll learn how to lay cobblestones.
During your 3 year apprenticeship
Precision – #1470
03 Oct
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Matthias in Portugal, specially Lisbon, the cobble stones are still laied down the old fashion way. The artisans do it all by hand inclusive the shaping of the stones. It´s a really hard work job, specially if you have to do it in the peak of the summer.
Anyways, very nice picture as always!
figures – the art of cobbling remains, where manual labour is cheap …
On the condition that the skill sets are there, of course! Cheap manual labour isn’t the sole factor.
Could be. Here now that our state has tried to run off as many illegal aliens as possible there will be plenty of jobs available. Now to see how many Alabamians will want to do their work.
I like the light on his hands.
V
My goodness! Matthias contradicts you? Brave man! Getting back to the skill, I’ve always wanted to work with my hands: weaving, furniture making…but never seriously pursued any of it, but now wish that I had. Staying in one’s head too much is not always a good thing. I like your photo…it tells me a different story than it did Matthias.
first of – thanks for all your great pictures.
but today i have to disagree: your photo doesn’t show precision. for cobbling to be precise – you may say old-fashioned, i say the right way – there shouldn’t be any gap between the stones at all. but that’s a lot of work, quite a pain in the ass, so almost nobody cobbles like this nowadays. at least not in germeany – in poland i saw a lot of beautiful, new cobblings in the old manner.