This craft goes back to the dawn of civilization, beginning in earnest during the Neolithic age. It is used to shape raw pieces of rock into accurate geometrical shapes. It is craft that has enabled countless human buildings, monuments, tombstones, tools and various utilitarian, decorative and symbolic objects. The most common tools for the work of a stonecutter are mallets, hammers and chisels.

Later, the craft developed in earnest during the liberation from centuries of Turkish rule, but also in the second half of the nineteenth century, with the evolution of modern buildings in the Serbian cities for which was cut stone used. The craft was practiced extensively in Belgrade. The stonecutters were mostly Italians. At that time, stonemasonry was more lucrative than any other craft.

Today there are many modern machines that are used for working with stone. Thanks to a marble mine on a mountain Vencac and a granite mine in the village Bukovik near Arandjelovac, in this part of Sumadija stonecarving has developed for more than a century. In the whole territory of our country, there is no municipality where there isn’t at least one stonecarving workshop.