Very sad to hear of the passing of amazing #lettercutter and accidental YouTube star Iuean Rees.
youtube.com/watch?v=92C1...
Progress image of hand carved lettering on Welsh slate
Above thy deep and dreamless sleep, the silent stars go by. #lettering #lettercarver #lettercutter #slate
Sinner, hand carved #lettering on limestone, inpainted in red. isiah 1:18. "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool."
Sunday. You sinner.
In the shop. www.poorfrankraw.co.uk/shop
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End of year gift giving season is starting to lurch towards us. This piece is one of my larger works (Lorem Ipsum meets Cicero - niche, I know), but there are smaller, more affordable pieces in my shop...
www.poorfrankraw.co.uk/shop
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Blocks of limestone with hand carved lettering. Sinner, a, r, s, e.
Since there is nothing important going on elsewhere in the world, I should get back to some hand carved lettering...
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Two bookends, both hand carved with a blackletter lower case b, one filled with black dyed resin
Three limestone blocks, one (High Moor limestone) hand carved with ARSE, the others (Hopton Wood limestone) hand carved with WELCOME and WHATEVER
Black filled B & ARSE are sold (both on High Moor #limestone from #Yorkshire), now safely delivered to their home in Ohio! Lots more in the shop for overnight delivery, plus bookends & year stones to order:
www.poorfrankraw.co.uk/shop
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Screenshot from the latest video: a frame showing spray painting hand cut letters
Screenshot from the latest video: A frame showing sanding off the excess paint
Screenshot from the latest video: A frame showing applying slate oil
Screenshot from the latest video: A frame showing hand carving a letter on slate
New video! I just posted a new episode of hand carved lettering on stone. This time dealing with painting in the cut letters and oiling the surface of slate.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWah...
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Bookends, hand carved limestone, with letters
I'm up to my arse in bookends.
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A limestone panel, marked out, letter cutting under way.
On the easel: hand carved scattered alphabet on High Moor #limestone from #Yorkshire.
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A scattered alphabet, hand carved on Welsh slate.
This piece is now sold but other pieces of hand carved lettering are available in the shop: www.poorfrankraw.co.uk/shop
FYI there is swearing.
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Four limestone bookends, each hand carved with a single gothic letter: f, a, r, t. Hey, get over it. You didn't come here for poetry and literature.
In the shop, letter bookends, hand carved on limestone.
www.poorfrankraw.co.uk/shop
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Clatterdevengeance, hand carved lettering. The word is C17 slang for penis.
Look, I'm just the transcribing functionary here, I didn't choose it. And fyi, don't google it. Hand carved Roman letters on Nabresina limestone from Trieste.
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An old swear word, part completed, hand carved lettering
On the easel. Don't ask.
Hand carved lettering on Nabresina limestone from Trieste.
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Memento mori, in blackletter, hand carved on Nabresina limestone from Trieste.
Blackletter memento mori, because you know not the hour or the day.
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A hand carved alphabet, carved on flat stone, but angled to give the appearance of being carved on two faces of a block.
An experiment which turned out OK, just not what I planned. Anyhoo. Quick sale price: £195 inc UK overnight shipping.
A perspective alphabet, hand carved on High Moor limestone from Yorkshire. 34 x 24 x 3 cms.
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This too will pass, hand carved on limestone
This too will pass.
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A partially completed hand carved alphabet
On the easel. An alphabet in perspective, on High Moor limestone from Yorkshire.
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It's all about me and a pair of stars, hand carved on Welsh slate
In the shop. It's all about me. Hand not included.
www.poorfrankraw.co.uk/shop/index.h...
Hand carved letters on black Welsh slate. #lettering #letterCarver #letterCutter
Panem et circenses - bread and circuses - carved in a circle and inpainted in red
In the shop. Panem et circenses. Hand carved 'Roman rustic' lettering on Hopton Wood limestone.
www.poorfrankraw.co.uk/shop/index.h...
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Morituri nolumus mori, hand carved on Hopton Wood limestone
A quote from Terry Pratchett, Those who are about to die, don't want to. Morituri nolumus mori.
Hand carved blackletter on Hopton Wood limestone.
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A block of limestone, hand carved with the word 'curlew' for a friend. Also a cup of tea.
Two blocks of limestone, hand carved with a blackletter b and a star. Also a bottle of slate oil.
A couple of snapshots of the bench, a decade apart 😱
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Screenshot of part of Frank Raw's Emporium of Hand Carved Lettering.
In the shop, a range of bookends, letters, date stones, inscriptions and of course sweary letter carving. All for UK shipping mucho pronto.
www.poorfrankraw.co.uk/shop/index.h...
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The digits 1 to 9 and 0 hand carved on purple Welsh slate.
It's not always about the letters. We inherited most of our alphabet from the Romans, but our Arabic numerals (the clue is in the name) came from... Arabia. They appeared increasingly widely in Europe from the C15th. This sampler has the digits hand carved on purple Welsh slate.
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Latin, hand carved letter: memento mori
Spanish, hand carved letters: Siempre veintiuno
Welsh, hand carved lettering: Mochyn
Russian, hand carved lettering: 'Strong'
My letter carving is rooted in the Latin alphabet, and I have no experience in any of the south Asian scripts, Georgian, Arabic or Hebrew, but it still leaves room for most European languages, including at a pinch, Russian:
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A bookend whatnot, a block of limestone hand carved with a question mark and an ampersand
A square of limestone hand carved with 'drama queen'
A selection of hand carved lettering on blocks of stone
'This too will pass' hand carved on a block of limestone
Hand carved lettering on stone? Take a seat: www.poorfrankraw.co.uk/blog/carving...
I'm new to Bluesky but I've been banging on about hand carved lettering on the dead-bird site and Masto for ages. Expect to see more variations on the lettering theme as I settle in :)
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A request from a friend. Roman letters hand carved on Welsh slate
A variation on gothic blackletter hand carved on slate and limestone
Roman rustics hand carved in a circle on Derbyshire limestone
Lombardic letters hand carved on slate
I carve a range of styles of lettering, depending on the individual piece: Roman, Lombardic, Gothic, Roman rustic, and variations in weight, layout etc. Here are a few examples:
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