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Wattle and daub

Building technique using woven wooden supports packed with clay or mud / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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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. Wattle and daub has been used for at least 6,000 years and is still an important construction method in many parts of the world. Many historic buildings include wattle and daub construction.

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Wattle and daub in wooden frames