Wattle and daub is a compositebuilding material used for making walls, 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. Wattle and daub has been used for at least 6000 years and is still an important construction material in many parts of the world. Many historic buildings include wattle and daub construction, and the technique is becoming popular again in more developed areas as a low-impact sustainable building technique.
Construction
The wattle is made by weaving thin branches (either whole, or more usually split) or slats between upright stakes. The wattle may be made as loose panels, slotted between timber framing to make infill panels, or it may be made in place to form the whole of a wall.
Daub is usually created from a mixture of certain ingredients from three categories: binders, aggregates and reinforcement. Binders hold the mix together and can include clay, lime, chalk dust and limestone dust. Aggregates give the mix its bulk and dimensional stability through materials such as earth, sand, crushed chalk and crushed stone. Reinforcement is provided by straw, hair, hay or other fibrous materials, and helps to hold the mix together as well as to control shrinkage and provide flexibility. The daub may be mixed by hand, or by treading – either by humans or livestock. It is then applied to the wattle and allowed to dry, and often then whitewashed to increase its resistance to rain.
“I was sceptical at first,” says Keay ... It leads through to the oldest part of the building, the former “solar”, or living quarters, which now makes a cosy living room, where a fragment of wattle and daub can still be found in one corner ... .
Saturday. 9.01am. Marks & Spencer. “Where are your suits?” I gasped. “It’s an emergency.” ... “Upstairs, I think,” said the young assistant, as though I’d just asked about penny-farthings or a daguerreotype or a pot of daub for my wattle ...Comment ... .
The building, constructed from wattle and daub combined with wooden posts and exceptionally well-preserved by fire, offers crucial clues to the construction methods and way of life of these early agricultural pioneers ... For Horejs, one thing is clear ... .
But if a house was constructed of oak beams, wattle and daub, or other unorthodox materials, the rebuilding cost can be far greater than the market value ....
Archaeologists are excavating a fortified settlement associated with the Linear Pottery Culture at Eilsleben in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany... The LDA said ... The excavators found post holes of houses as well as the remains of wattle and daub house walls ... LDA.
. £387,562 ... ... Regarded as one of the UK’s best-preserved medieval villages, Lavenham is home to over 300 listed properties, including colourful wattle and daub houses which served as the back-drop for Godric’s Hollow in the Harry Potter film series ... ... ... ... .
Good morrow! Check out my raiment. Er…. Come on, what sayest thou?. I assume there’s some sort of Tudor trend going on. Correct! This is a ‘hot Tudor summer’, says The Times... By my troth…. Can we give the Tudor talk a rest? ... How? ... ... Wattle & Daub Special.
Bamford in the grounds of Daylesford House... Stripping back the plaster laid bare the original stone walls; beams and door frames were patched and oak boards revealed, while wattle-and-daub panelling was restored and re-rendered ... Surface level ... .
Painted in tiffany blue and designated a county historical site, the station uses Alishan cypresses for the wooden frame, while the walls showcase the distinctive “wattle and daub,” a traditional construction method in Taiwan, Lee said ... 29 and No ... .
... of modernity itself, expressive of a self-abnegating desire to return to a wattle and daub smeared world of acoustic guitars and undercooked root vegetables gnawed around the village campfire?.
While Bolt is now retired, Sherwood Content remains a place of interest for visitors ... Over the years, much has changed in Sherwood Content. The houses, which were primarily made of wattle and daub are now being replaced by modern concrete structures ... .
... we want our local contexts and identities to survive, a conscious effort is needed to delink the tag of kaccha from materials like thatch, mud, cob wall, wattle and daub.
The Villanovans were the earliest Etruscans who brought iron-working to Italy. Image with funerary urn, Sarteano, Italy. Credit... The Villanovans in Tuscany also used the terra-cotta hot urn, which imitated a hut of wattle and daub on a frame of poles.
Tutucan’s architecture is a testament to the traditional Colombian building styles, featuring structures made of rammed earth (tapia pisada), wattle and daub (bahareque), wood, and wild cane (ca�abrava) ... ....
The presentKing, as his father Prince Philip delicately put it, was raised by a coterie of “nannies, nurses and poofs”. But his earliest memory was of a pram, not people ... “I wish I knew.” ... A wattle-and-daub redoubt, “where nobody can get at me”.
