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A wattle-and-daub house at Oconaluftee Indian Village A house constructed using the wattle and daub technique at the Oconaluftee Indian Village, a museum in Cherokee, North Carolina. River cane stakes were placed vertically into the ground; they were woven together into frames with branches and vines. Mud, clay, and other substances were then spread across the frames to create walls. (more)
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wattle and daub, in building construction, method of constructing walls in which vertical wooden stakes (wattles) are woven with horizontal twigs and branches, and then covered with clay, mud, or other substances (the daub). This method is one of the oldest known for making a weatherproof structure. In England, Iron Age sites have been discovered with remains of circular dwellings constructed in this way, the stakes being driven into the earth.

When this method is used as filling-in for a timber-framed structure, the wattles are set into holes bored in a horizontal timber above and fitted into a groove in a corresponding timber below. Then the stakes are woven with twigs and plastered with clay. The half-timbered houses of medieval Europe were frequently finished this way.

The lath-and-plaster method of building up interior walls, which was common before the introduction of drywall, is a more modern evolution of the wattle and daub technique, using standardized materials.

The Editors of Encyclopaedia BritannicaThis article was most recently revised and updated by J.E. Luebering.

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