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Stone Carving

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Stone Carving Stone carving is an activity where pieces of rough natural stone are shaped by the controlled removal of stone. Work carried out by paleolithic societies to create stone tools is more often referred to as knapping. Stone carving that is done to produce lettering is more often referred to as lettering. The process of removing stone from the earth is called mining or quarrying. Stone carving is one of the processes which may be used by an artist when creating a sculpture. The term also refers to the activity of masons in dressing stone blocks for use in architecture, building or civil engineering. It is also a phrase used by archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists to describe the activity involved in making some types of petroglyphs. If we talk about a place in India, Rajasthan. All the palaces and houses are carved in a very nice manner. During the rule of Raja-Maharaja, they used to designed their palaces in such a boutique manner or stone carving.  the