Wattle and daub
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Wattle and daub is a composite building method in which a woven lattice of wooden strips called "wattle" is "daubed" with a sticky material usually made of some combination of wet soil, clay, sand, an
Wattle and daub in wooden frames
A wattle and daub house as used by Native Americans of the Mississippian culture
A woven wattle gate keeps animals out of a 15th-century cabbage patch. (Tacuinum Sanitatis, Rouen)
Wattle panel
Lath and plaster
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Lath and plaster is a building process used to finish mainly interior dividing walls and ceilings. It consists of narrow strips of wood which are nailed horizontally across the wall studs or ceiling j
Wattle and daub
…houses such as those of the Ashanti people. Its usage dates back at least 6,000 years. There are suggestions that construction techniques such as lath and plaster and even cob may have evolved from wattle and daub. Fragments from prehistoric wattle and daub buildings have been found in Africa, Europe, Mesoamerica…
Lath seen from the back with white plaster coat oozing through
Partially-exposed wallpapered lath and plaster illustrating the technique. Example from the Winchester Mystery House, constructed between 1884 and 1922