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	Wattle and daub - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The wattle and daub technique was used already in the Neolithic.
		A woven latticework of wooden stakes called wattles is daubed with a mixture of mud and clay, animal dung and straw to create a structure.
		Daub and wattle are building materials used in constructing houses.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wattle_and_daub (391 words)

	Daub
		In this wattle and daub method of construction the walls of the structure were formed of wood, sticks, vines, or various materials which provided the framework.
		It is common to refer to all pieces of baked clay as "daub" but this term should be used only for baked clay that was used as daub in the "wattle and daub" method of house construction.
		Daub, consequently, should show the impressions of the wattle in order to be certain that it was used for this purpose.
	www.ou.edu /cas/archsur/OKArtifacts/daub.htm (476 words)

	NATIONAL TRUST for the Cayman Islands
		One such building method is known as wattle and daub, whereby a wooden framework is filled in with wooden lathes covered with plaster.
		Wattle and daub houses probably appeared within just a few years of the first settlement.
		A good wattle wall, daubed inside and out, would be about six inches thick and could resist rain and sun.
	www.nationaltrust.org.ky /info/wattle.html (917 words)

	wattle-daub-msg.rtf
		The Daub I have used building forts as a child came from \par the Moy river in Co. Sligo, and was anything from red, gray/blue to \par brown in color.
		When we daub the houses \par we use clay, straw and sand.
		Wattle is poles interwoven with slender \par branches, withes, or reeds.
	www.florilegium.org /files/DWELLINGS/wattle-daub-msg.rtf (1831 words)

	Wattle & Daub
		Wattle and Daub were engaged, as they chatted, on arranging all the necessary rope, and the pulley, for their new idea.
		Daub, now standing to his full height of four foot ten, took grave exception to being called a 'swine', and let out a vicious kick at the still prone Wattle, leaning as he was with his back to the wall.
		Naturally enough, to all their mates, they were Wattle and Daub, and the names stuck.
	website.lineone.net /~rhaywood/stories/wad1.html (6976 words)

	Cinar Village Residents
		His house is a wattle and daub structure with a thatch roof in poor condition.
		Their wattle and daub home is in good condition with a wood shingle roof.
		Their wattle and daub home with a wood shingle roof is in good condition.
	www.ketherian.org /paxtharda/places/rethem/themesonshire/cinar/c-villlage.htm (1159 words)

	Daub - wattle and daub - definition of wattle and daub by the Free Online
		Daub was one of the leaders of a school which sought to reconcile theology and Daub had become so hopelessly addicted to this perverse principle that he
		In 1990, Daub was appointed by President George HW Bush to the National “Hal Daub brings to AHCA/NCAL a varied and distinguished background with a broad
		Dan Daub batting, fielding and pitching major league baseball lifetime statistics for each season and his career, and a list of any post-season awards he
	onlinedragnet.com /?q=daub (258 words)

	Native American Homes - wattle and daub
		Wattle and Daub was a type of construction using a frame work of poles intertwined with branches and vines covered with mud.
		The roofs of wattle and daub homes had thatch roofs which shed the heavy rains in the area.
		Many Native American tribes who lived in the southeastern part of North America built wattle and daub dwellings.
	nativeamericanrhymes.com /library/homes/wattle_and_daub.htm (58 words)

	Regina's modern mud house
		Wattle and daub construction is not one of the main techniques to build in mud.
		Regina had earlier seen the wattle and daub mud house of Meike, a German resident of Auroville, and immediately found it a fitting technology, best satisfying her own criteria for a home.
		The principle of the wattle and daub technique is an age-old one.
	www.auroville.org /thecity/architecture/arch_regina_mudhousei.htm (1658 words)

	Poplar Cottage Construction Wattle and Daub Thatch
		In the picture below the lower panels have been filled with daub and are covered with hessian to slow down the drying process to prevent cracking.
		Daub is made from earth (subsoil is best!), mixed with straw or grass.
		The roof is being thatched by local thatcher, Chris Tomkins and his team, the material used is wheat straw and the technique is known as long straw thatching.
	www.wealddown.co.uk /poplar-cottage-construction-thatch-wattle-and-daub.htm (152 words)

	Period Property UK - Wattle & Daub - An explanation by Ian Pritchett
		Wattle and daub is not only the sound choice from a constructional point of view, but it is also the most environmentally friendly approach.
		Cob walls are freestanding and normally two or three feet thick, whereas wattle and daub is used in panels that fill the gaps within the structure of a timber framed building.
		The daub is applied simultaneously from both sides in damp hand-fulls, pressed into and around the wattle to form a homogenous mass.
	www.periodproperty.co.uk /article040.htm (982 words)

	Definitions
		Daub and wattle was a simple method of building construction.
		This method gave an reasonable wall provided the frame, the wattle and the daub were suitable and adequately constructed or applied.
		The "daub" was mud or clay, smeared over the wattle with a spade to seal the wall to make it weatherproof.
	home.vicnet.net.au /~strthmre/defineit.htm (114 words)

	Half-timber
		Wattle and daub used by Romans in 1 BC.
		: a form of wall construction, consisting of wattles, covered and plastered with clay or mud.
	ah.bfn.org /a/DCTNRY/h/half.html (75 words)

	Living in Harmony with Nature
		The frame of the side wall was filled with wattle and daub, the clay-sand mix with little chopped straw plastering the willow weaving.
		The roof can be finished with thatch, which is grounded in the adobe finish of the wattle and daub outside surface.
		Such techniques are reminiscent of so called ‘Fachwerk’ houses and wood frame houses with wattle and daub fill.
	www.stratosphere.org /earth/main/livinature.htm (668 words)

	Museum of London: Exhibitions: HSL: Background Information: The Reconstructions: Building Techniques: Walls
		Wattle and daub consists of branches or thin laths (wattle) woven around the timbers and covered with mud or clay (daub).
		Remains of both wattle and daub and mudbrick were found, as well as the bases of some walls.
		This was often stamped with deep-set chevrons that allowed the plaster rendering to key to the daub.
	www.museumoflondon.org.uk /MOLsite/exhibits/hslondon/construct/walls.htm (415 words)

	Archaeology Wordsmith
		DEFINITION: A building technique in which walls were made by plastering mud (daub, possibly with sand and plant fibers) over a lattice of branches and sticks (wattle).
		Though the wattle does not normally survive, its imprint is frequently preserved on the daub.
		DEFINITION: clay which is smeared onto a structure of timber or wattle (interwoven twigs) as a finish to the surface.
	www.reference-wordsmith.com /cgi-bin/lookup.cgi?category=&where=headword&terms=daub (160 words)

	SOLID EARTH Adobe Buildings - Earthbuilding Construction and Adobe Brick Manufacture
		Wattle and daub starts with a lattice of vertical studs and horizontal wattles, worked together like a basket.
		In New Zealand there are examples which have stood the test of time, but Wattle and Daub is seldom used nowadays.
		A mix of earth and straw is then daubed onto this latticework, forced into the gaps and smoothed over to fill any cracks.
	www.solidearth.co.nz /other2.htm (891 words)

	Creeks & Cherokees
		Cherokee houses were made of wattle and daub.
		The Creek and Cherokee tribes both lived in wattle and daub huts, not the tepee as most would believe.
		Wattle is twigs, branches, and stalks woven together to make a frame.
	www.valdosta.edu /~amperrit/cc.html (380 words)

	Akan Kwawu Housing
		The difference between using wattle and daub versus using large sun baked clay bricks, was mainly a difference of how permanent or temporary was the house, or how important it was.
		The wattle and daub houses are first built with poles (wattle), and then they are covered in earth mixed with fine clay (daub).
		As the design developed, the sides became vertical, still made of wattle and daub, but the roofs were made separately of raffia and oil palm branches.
	www.scn.org /rdi/kw-hse.htm (976 words)

	ALVATIA: Cottage Styles - RPGnetWiki
		The peasant cottage is a cruck-framed, thatch roofed, wattle and daub structure.
		The wattle is then covered, inside and out, with daub: a mixture of mud, clay, animal hair, and dung.
		The components of the daub smell most strongly when a cottage is new, or gets wet after being dry for a season.
	wiki.rpg.net /index.php/ALVATIA:_Cottage_Styles (1529 words)

	Fox Maple Natural Building Workshops
		Wattle and Daub may not be the best system for enclosing exterior walls in northern climates due to the density of the mixture of clay, but it may well be the most interesting and fun clay based building system of all.
		This system, known as wattle and daub, was one of the most common methods used throughout Europe and Asia for more than a thousand years.
		An adaptation of a centuries-old wall system, Wattle and Daub, straw light clay uses the same materials but is fashioned in a way that provides greater insulating qualities.
	www.foxmaple.com /corbettwk.html (2212 words)

	Solutions - Earth Building
		The aim of the course was to build a porch onto the house using three natural building techniques, cob, wattle and daub and clay straw.
		In the two days of the workshop we finished the wattle and daub walls and the clay straw sections.
		We can do wattle and daub very fast now, having had a fair bit of practice.
	homepage.eircom.net /~thehollies/pages/mucky.html (770 words)

	ETV NTTI Lesson :: Wattle and Daub Using Natural Resources to Survive (Grade 7)
		After examining Web sites and video clips, students will be able to determine which items are necessary for living in the forest, identify the natural resources used by the Cherokee Indians to build their homes, define hamlet, palisade, wattle, and daub, and create a poster describing their picture of a Cherokee hamlet.
		Wattle and Daub Using Natural Resources to Survive (Grade 7)
		ETV NTTI Lesson :: Wattle and Daub Using Natural Resources to Survive (Grade 7)
	www.scetv.org /NTTI/lessons/2002_lessons/wattle.cfm (1449 words)

	Cob: wattle & daub
		It was > initially conceived as a post and beam structure (using locally-milled > Eucalyptus wood) with wattle and daub walls.
		Post and beam structures with wattle and daub walls could > meet these specs.
		You could also make a shita-ji window, which is leave a square or cirlce or any shape for that matter, of the bamboo or reed lath exposed and not plastered.
	www.deatech.com /pipermail/coblist/2002/004923.html (640 words)

	Search Results for daub - Encyclopædia Britannica
		in building construction, method of constructing walls in which vertical wooden stakes, or wattles, are woven with horizontal twigs and branches, and then daubed with clay or mud.
		Primitive agricultural practices began in Mexico by 6000 to 4000 BC and by approximately 2000 BC were known on the northern fringe of the Middle American culture area.
		Using thick daubs of paint, applied to achieve a swirling effect, he created a...
	www.britannica.com /search?query=daub&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (306 words)

	NATIONAL TRUST for the Cayman Islands
		It began life as a tiny, rectangular, wattle and daub structure with a hipped roof, isolated in a sprawling 'backwoods' area of Half Way Pond.
		At the core, wattle and daub walls, built during simple times in the late 1800's, form the heart of this home.
		• The original structure was a rectangular wattle and daub cottage that measured approximately 18' x 24'.
	www.nationaltrust.org.ky /info/misshilary.html (897 words)

	Tudor Houses
		Daub is a mixture of clay, sand and dung that is smeared (daubed) into and over the wattle to make the wall.
		Houses were usually made of timber and wattle and daub.
		Most ordinary homes in Tudor times were half timbered - they had wooden frames and the spaces between were filled with small sticks and wet clay called wattle and daub.
	www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk /homework/houses/tudor.htm (626 words)

	Homes for sale in Dallas, Texas. M Street tudor cottages, craftsman bungalows, and other homes for sale.
		By the time King Henry VIII came to the throne, various types of "wattle and daub" construction had been used in English houses for hundreds of years.
		The "wattle" is the base of woven sticks upon which the "daub" is plastered.
		One panel is in the process of being "daubed" in the second image.
	www.m-street-dallas.com /archi/arch_wattleanddaub1.html (243 words)

	Huddersfield One - Tolson Museum Booklets, Early Timbered Buildings of the Huddersfield District - Cruck-Trussed Buildings - Cottages of One Bay II
		These formed the central part of a wattle and daub wall, but all other traces of such a wall have disappeared.
		The existing evidence at Carr House Farm suggests that such walls of wattle and daub were probably employed here.
		No evidence could be obtained regarding the original walling of the other three cottages although the three upright rods at Far Field Head indicate that at least the actual gable between the tie-beams and the collar-beam was filled with wattle-and-daub.
	www.huddersfield1.co.uk /huddersfield/tolson/early_timbered/1bay_cottages2.htm (877 words)

	ShafferD_20_1
		Archaeomagnetic methods, originally developed to assist in the reconstruction of pottery vessels, are applied to the study of sintered remains of Neolithic wattle and daub buildings in Calabria, Italy, in order better to understand the circumstances of burning and structural collapse.
		An Archaeomagnetic Study of a Wattle and Daub Building Collapse
		Several lines of evidence indicate how old, abandoned daub buildings were probably set afire so as to harden and hence preserve the pieces of now-fired wall daub for future incorporation into the matrix of new walls.
	www.bu.edu /jfa/Abstracts/S/ShafferG_20_1.html (193 words)

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