Craft techniques for traditional buildings

Publication Year

1991

Document Status

Current

Abstract

Contains detailed accounts of craft techniques based on interviews with practising craftsmen, well supported by photographs and drawings. Deals with: walls and foundations (including clay, chalk, flint, cobbles, limestone, wattle and daub), facings (pargetting, mathematical tiles) and roofs (thatching, stone, shingles).

Author

Wright, A.

ISBN

0713464194

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