Dimension stone machines that put on flat or rounded edges, and interconnecting conveyors to move the stone from the slab input to the final tile product. The stone for tiles is most commonly marble, but often is granite, and sometimes limestone, slate, or quartz-based stone. Common colors are white and light earth colors. Much of the stone for this application is produced in Italy and China. Stone monuments include tombstones, grave markers or as mausoleums. After being gangsawed into big deep (up to wide and over 6 inches deep) slabs, smaller saws or guillotines (they break the granite and make the rough
Trullo (from the Greek word "τρούλος", cupola) refers to a house whose internal space is covered by a dry stone corbelled or keystone vault. "Trullo" is an italianized form of the dialectal term, "truddu", used in a specific area of the Salentine peninsula (i.e. Lizzaio, Maruggio and Avetrana, in other words, outside the "Murgia dei Trulli" proper) where it is the name of the local agricultural dry stone hut. "Trullo" has replaced the local term "casedda" (pl. "casedde") (Italian "casella", pl. "caselle") which was used by locals in the Murgia to call this type of house. A stonemason specializing in the