It started in 1980 and has never stopped. Except to raise her children! At that time, it was Johanny Lathuillère, the funeral director of the same name in Saint-Just-Saint-Rambert, who taught him the basics of the trade. Edith Combier was then working on a pantograph, a drawing instrument, made up of articulated rods, which made it possible to reproduce a motif on an exact scale, enlarged or reduced.
It is in 2004 that he specializes in outdoor engraving. Today Edith Combier spends most of her days sitting on tombstones carving the names of the deceased, their dates of birth and death… A small line engraved by hand, with a hammer and small scissors. She takes an average of three hours to draw a line, take the right dimensions, draw the letters in pencil, freehand, then, with light hammer blows, engrave them in marble or granite.
Installed on a small chair, placed directly …
