083 - Chisel

THE ROUGH AND INSUBORDINATE stone of Mani required detailed and painstaking work to take the desired shape. Petrofaoi used smaller tools too, which allowed them to express all their passion for their craft and carve detailed forms and symbols on the stone. Such tools were: chisels and “dysilidiko” little claw chisels, which helped in smoothing the stone, “louchloudiko” little lettering chisels and “louchloudiko” little claw chisels, which were used in carving “louchloudies”, meaning concave surfaces, as well as points, which were cylindrical metal tools used to create details in the hollows of the stone.

Donor: Takis Maniatakos