Beyond the name of 'Buskett Stone'

‘Throughout our days, consumers are bombarded with promotions. However, only a low percentage of this advertising material manages to reach our attention. In fact, by time, most adverts and brand names become second nature to us.’

So instinctively, we wondered whether our followers knew about the origins of our name. We thus reached out to Gino Chetcuti, the brains behind Buskett Stone to learn more about the business he gradually established during the past twenty years.

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So how did the name of 'Buskett Stone' come by?

Buskett has been the nickname of the family for decades. Everyone knew our family as ‘Tal-Buskett’, especially in Qormi. Back when I was a young man, my dad ran the ‘Buskett Confectionery’, which was notorious for wedding services, pastries and ice creams. A few years down the line, my brother and I started to work with wood. I taught myself through the basics of wood sculpting and carving. A few years later, I started to experiment with stone and it was not much later when the two mediums were being used in our works. Later on, my focus shifted on stone which has now become our primary medium within our works. 

The History of the Maltese Stone

The Maltese archipelago is situated in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. It is made up of mainly three islands: Malta, Gozo, and Comino. Malta, which is the main island, is made up of 316 square kilometres, composed entirely of sedimentary rocks. Due to its geographical position, Malta is continuously exposed to a constantly changing Mediterranean, resulting in compacted sediments of rocks which form the Maltese Islands.

The Maltese land was formed underwater through a gradual yet firm layering of particle sediments found underwater. As regards the layers of the Maltese islands, the oldest layer is that of the lower coralline limestone which were formed in the surrounding seas of Malta approximately 35 million years ago.  The most recent layer of sediments is the upper coralline limestone, which started to establish themselves around 7 million years ago. This is as expected when observing a series of layers; the sediments at the bottom are the oldest with age which slowly decrease in age as one reaches the upper layer.

These time frames seem extensive. However, in reality, if placed in perspective, the lower layers of rock in the Maltese islands were formed 30 million years after the extinction of the dinosaurs, meaning dinosaurs were extinct  65.5 million years ago.