Where can you get soapstone from?

[tombear]

Not had any joy googling so thought I would ask here. Where can I get hold of a fist sized piece of soapstone from to carve a oil lamp? I had hoped to find some naff carving on a car boot to cannibalise but I have had no joy, so now, shock horror, have to consider actually buying some like a proper person!i

It seems to be freely available to buy in the countries which have traditions of carving it like Sweden and Canada , not so much in East Lancashire.

Any advice would be much appreciated

ATB

Tom

 

[Adze]

My googlefu is awesome...

http://www.greatart.co.uk/soapstone-soapstone-sets.html

 

[lamper]

Shawshank Prison?

 

[Passer]

Lancashire colleges do courses for carving soapstone. Maybe they could put you onto a supplier

http://www.lancashirecollege.com/course information/PDFs Spring 2012/Soapstone Carving Workshop.pdf

 

[tombear]

Cheers I'll follow those ideas up
ATB

Tom

 

[Dynamite_1303]

These chaps used to sell Tazmanian Steatite years ago. No mention on their website now but might be worth contacting:

http://www.craft-supplies.co.uk/

I picked up bits in the Shetlands years ago, but too many inclusions for anything decent, plus a bit of a treck from Lancs.

 

[gsfgaz]

Andy's beach ... plenti there