Lombok Limestone is appreciated and recently is on high demands from tourists because of its unique and natural colors. It is a softer off white stone that the carvers can make into detailed and intricate pieces for inside and outside.  You can put it in your garden, galleries which will suite beautifully or you can put it any place which require a touch of nature atmosphere. Limestone is a new craft in Lombok and it's becoming very popular. Many local hotels and villas in Bali and Lombok (including Villa Ombak) nowadays design their lobby wall with limestone to give an artistic touch with its beautiful carving.

Lombok limestone or sandstone carving is basically for grave's head stone. The artist from the village receives orders to create a flat square sands stone for richer families to decorate their ancestor's grave. Then the ideas developed into various daily households needs such as statues, water fountain, ashtray, garden pots, etc. The results were amazing. What makes it unique is that Lombok lime stone uses the basic materials available only in one isolated village, up in the hill about 12kms from Pujut (South Lombok). They are using very simple tools to dig in to certain depth of ground and carried out the raw materials before the making of basic shapes. The process itself could take 1-2 days if the weather is friendly.

Unlike Lombok pottery, which most of the work done by women during their spare time, the sandstone carving mostly involve men in the area of production. It took concentration, and patient to help them with inspirations and ideas. These people are not well educated or even go to art school, but yet they are creative and innovative.