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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...

Clay panel or clay board (also known as loam panel, clay wallboard, clay building board, or clay building panel) is a panel made of clay with some additives...

keepers houses on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, written about 1828, require stone walls to be laid with clay mortar, excepting 3 inches on the outside...

mixed with water and an organic material such as straw or dung. The soil composition typically contains sand, silt and clay. Straw is useful in binding...

traditional water-resistant mortar used in Iranian architecture, used in the construction of bridges, and yakhchal. It is made of clay and limestone mixed in a...

mixture of silt, clay, sand and other earth materials like gravel and stone, combined with tempers and binding agents such as chopped straw, grasses, tree...

the clay for the future dwelling, a big circle was made where the people put clay and sand, water was poured in the center, and straw on top. Straw was...

includes clay, sand or small stones and an organic material such as straw. Cob walls are usually built up in courses, have no mortar joints and need 30%...

enclosures was plastered with clay and straw mortar. The terraces are characterized by having rectangular shapes in the north and east parts, while in the...

etc. Lime plaster Lime mortar Hempcrete Michel Couvreux, "Selecting A Natural Hydraulic Lime: What To Look For" The Last Straw No. 62, Spring 2014. 8-10...

a mixture of mud (containing loam, clay, sand and water) mixed with a binding material such as rice husks or straw. Mudbricks are known from 9000 BCE...

called mud bricks. Other uses of clay in building is combined with straws to create light clay, wattle and daub, and mud plaster. Wet-laid, or damp, walls...

with either a mud straw plaster, fired brick, or ceramic tile. When finished with mud straw plaster, a thin layer of clay earth and straw is baked on to...

using plastic jars and coffee grinders or food processors rather than the traditional implements such as clay vessels and mortar-and-pestles fashioned...

less than common brick and mortar. This is because the specific heat capacity of clay brick is higher (0.84 versus wood's 0.42), and is denser than airy...

treatment and water reuse. The materials common to many types of natural building are clay and sand. When mixed with water and, usually, straw or another...

materials used in construction including slurry, mortar, plaster, stucco, and concrete. Mud, cob, adobe, clay, and many other names are historically used synonymously...

the clay, probably with a mortar. Occasionally, straw particles occur. This fabric occurs from the early Middle Kingdom into the New Kingdom, and seems...

resemble straw in mortar—in remembrance of that thing by which our fathers were enslaved in Egypt, seeing that it is like unto bricks and straw. In Yemenite...

yellow pottery clay soil. The soil is wetted and made into a thick clay mixed with chopped stubble and straw from harvested wheat. The clay is hand-formed...