A heavy canvas roll holding a stoneworker’s hand tools: wooden mallets of graded weights, an iron pitching tool for splitting rough block, pointed and toothed chisels for the first shaping, claw chisels and a flat bolster for smoothing and edging, a plumb line on a brass bob, a steel level, a marked square, and a brace of feathers and plugs for splitting along the grain. The tools are simple but heavy; a full kit is a load to carry, and a mason who travels from job to job usually engages a boy to shoulder it. Hoists, scaffolds, and the dressing bench itself stay at the quarry or the work site, and a mason moving between commissions carries only what can be slung across a mule.
Masons rank their kits by the work they fit: the dry-stone waller’s pouch is little more than a hammer and a wedge, the cathedral carver’s chest spans half a wagon bed. A journeyman’s roll sits somewhere in the middle — enough to quarry, dress, and set for a village church or a lordly tomb, but not the fine chisels of a master imager nor the heavy tackle of a bridge-builder.