Pietrista Course

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The stone worker is the worker specialized in the manufacture of artificial stones imitating marble and other building materials. A stone, in commercial terminology (which in Italy is regulated by the UNI-8458 standard), is a rock, normally not polishable, and with a varied mineralogical composition, used both as a construction and decoration material, which does not fall within the marble types. , granite or travertine defined by the same legislation. They are divided into two groups: soft and / or not very compact rocks: clastic sedimentary rocks (arenites, calcarenites, etc.) and volcanoclastic rocks (tuffs, peperini, etc.) and hard and / or compact rocks: natural split stones (quartzites, mica schists, gneisses, slates, etc.) and effusive magmatic rocks (basalts, trachytes, etc.). Among the other varieties of stone, the pietra serena, Lecce stone and slate. The stone in Masonic symbolism is an important symbol and is one of the immobile jewels present in the loggia. It symbolically represents what is necessary for the Apprentice Brothers to educate themselves in latomistic work, with the aim of cleaning it, a metaphor for the change to be made on oneself, for one's own human and spiritual improvement.

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I MODULE: How to classify a rock: soft and compact rock and volcanoclastic rocks II MODULE: What is meant by artificial stone: building material that imitates stone in decorative elements III MODULE: What tools does a stonecutter use in the phases of stone processing MODULE IV: What are the fundamental phases that characterize the stone working process MODULE V: The phenomenon of calcinaroli and the two ways of extinguishing this phenomenon MODULE VI: Safety in the use of stone as regards the health of the worker

Pietrista Course

£ 244.13 VAT inc.

*Indicative price

Original amount in EUR:

280 €