10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WATTLEWORK»
Discover the use of
wattlework in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
wattlework and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Ecology of Building Materials
The wattlework is pushed together with a hammer to make it tight. Finally the wall
istrimmed. At ¢rst the cladding is green; in time it becomes brown and dark grey,
and after 30 years so much moss may grow that it becomes green again.
2
Outdoor Survival Skills
Insulated. Wattlework. A little more time and patience is needed in the
construction of a wattlework shelter, but the comfort it provides is worth the extra
effort (Fig. 19). Each wall is made with two parallel rows of stakes driven into the
ground ...
3
Wood and Wood Joints: Building Traditions of Europe, Japan ...
Stone Age.5 Unplastered wattlework, if built properly, can be very stable and will
always allow the passage of sufficient air. (Fig. 224) In Russia houses were built
with wattlework up until about AD 500.Plotnik,the wattleworker, became and ...
4
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Landscape and Urban Planning: ...
1504 diagonal wattlework [n] [US]/diagonal wattlework [n] [UK] constr. (Vertically-
installed fence of live willows, alders or the like, which is diagonally embedded
on steep slopes, as a bioengineering technique; ▻wattlework); syn. diagonal ...
5
Roman Social History: A Sourcebook
ButI wish that wattlework construction had never been discovered.The more it
assists in speedof construction andfreeing up space, the more itlends itself
togreater disaster for everyone, asitis like kindling readiedfora fire. Soitseems
more ...
Tim Parkin, Arthur Pomeroy, 2007
6
The Traditional Malay House
In some cases wattlework walls from bamboo strips or wickerwork walls from
bamboo were used. Such walls may still be seen in long-roofed houses
especially in Kedah and Perlis and also in the kutai houses of Perak. These walls
were made ...
Abdul Halim Nasir, Hashim Haji Wan Teh (Wan.), 2011
7
Materials and Skills for Historic Building Conservation
... moisture via capillary action and then expel it into the atmosphere during
drying. Wattlework. Withies and woven lath are often friable owing to decay. The
principles for their repair are as follows: 0 Limit disturbance to situations where
wattle ...
8
The Architecture of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Wainscoting consisted of wooden boards or (more often) thin, upright poles
supporting wattlework or jacal, rising from the back of the bench between
pilasters. The poles lean outward from the wall toward the center of ceiling,
perhaps 10o to ...
9
Analecta praehistorica Leidensia
13.2.1. Wattlework linings with round/oval cross-sections (typeAl) Most of the 98
wells of type A I were lined with a single wattlework structure with a round to oval
cross-section, varying in diameter from 40 to 220 cm, with an average of 100 cm.
10
Excavations in Cranborne Chase, Near Rushmore, on the ...
DESCRIPTION OF PLATE LII. FRAGMENTS OF DAUB AND WATTLEWORK,
WITH RESTORATION OF WATTLEWORK. ROMANO-BRITISH VILLAGE,
WOODCUTS COMMON. Figs. 1 t0 8.—I)aubing of wattlework, composed of clay,
which, ...
Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers, 1887
