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Traditional Building Materials by Matthew Slocombe
$17.99 AUD
Category: New Home Architecture, Design and Building | Series: Shire Library 634
Steel and glass now dominate modern British cities, but the country can still boast millions of older houses constructed of more traditional building materials. Many date from the period before easy nationwide transportation, when these materials were usually grown on or extracted from land in the l ...Show more
UNKNOWN by SUNSHINE PAULA
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Category: New Home Architecture, Design and Building | Series: Shire Library
Wattle and daub is possibly one of the oldest building methods in the world. Ever since man first erected a hut in which to shelter, sticks (wattles) and clay or earth (daub) have been used to fill in the gaps in the wooden framework, to keep out the cold, wind and rain, or the heat during summer. Wattl ...Show more
WALLED KITCHEN GARDENS by CAMPBELL SUSAN
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Category: Don't use | Series: Shire Library
The kitchen garden was designed to provide a continual supply not only of fruit, flowers and vegetables, but also of plants that had medicinal and veterinary uses, plants for flavouring food and drink, and those providing dyes, perfumes, narcotics, disinfectants, poisons and pesticides. With the aid of ...Show more
WEDWOOD WARE by COPELAND ROBERT
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Category: New Antiques | Series: Shire Library
ABOUT THE BOOKJosiah Wedgwood I was born into a family of potters; his pioneering spirit built up the most important English pottery business of the eighteenth century so that the name Wedgwood became a generic word for fine earthenware. He is justly famous for perfecting the Black Basalt and Jasper sto ...Show more
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