Modern Wattle And Daub Home. The lath-and-plaster method of building up interior walls which was common before the introduction of plasterboard and Sheetrock is a more modern evolution of the wattle and daub technique using standardized materials. A wattle was a wicker fence or wall made of a pliable wood like willow or hazel woven around upright posts like a horizontal basket.
Nka Foundation announces workshop to build a Top Design in 3rd Earth Architecture Competition. Thank you for visiting the Wattle Daubs website. We infill our workshop panels with woven wattle recycle from a local sawmills scrap edge trimmings.
Mixing and applying a traditional haired lime plaster.
Lime Plaster 1 part hydrated lime paste 2 parts white silica sand applied with a trowel and smooth off when half dry with a damp sponge. Wattle and daub refers to a type of construction where a house is made a lattice of wooden strips called wattle is plastereddaubed with wet soil clay sand and straw. Wattle and daub is a composite building method used for making walls and buildings 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 animal dung and straw. Building New Homes on Our Lots in Ashburn Sterling Leesburg Potomac Falls.