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Pargeting

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The devices were stamped on the wet plaster. This seems generally to have been done by sticking a number of pins in a board in certain lines or curves, and then pressing on the wet plaster in various directions, so as to form
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shows a particularly fine example of pargeting, depicting scenes from the four continents. When the hall was built in 1670,
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Pargeting derives from the word 'parget', a Middle English term that is probably derived from the Old French
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had not yet been discovered by Europeans, and the Americas were considered a single continent.
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applied to building walls. The term, if not the practice, is particularly associated with the
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Fermor, Patrick Leigh, "A Time of Gifts," at 147 (New York Review Books, 2005)(
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figures. Sometimes these devices are in relief, and in the time of
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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describes similar decorations on pre-World War II buildings in
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The term is also applied to the lining of the inside of smoke
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Decorative or waterproof plaster applied to building walls
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to form an even surface for the passage of the smoke.
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County Museum
Clare, Suffolk
plastering
English counties
Suffolk
Essex
Norfolk

Ancient House
Ipswich
Australia
Antarctica
Patrick Leigh Fermor
Linz
studwork
half-timber
geometrical
Elizabeth I of England
birds
foliage
Ipswich
Maidstone
Newark-on-Trent
flues
Harl
Parge coat
Plasterwork
Yeseria
Weidenfeld & Nicolson

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