Plastered
I covered the Tagistani dwellings featured in the last post with a first splash of dark brown grout filler. I did some simple sculpting of mud bricks into the grout as usual but also used the grout to give a hint of door handles and hinges on the window shutters. I tried to avoid adding too many sills and lintels to the doors and
Mouse-over the image bellow to see
another image of the houses.
windows as I couldn’t find much evidence of period Palestinian or
Persian mud brick buildings having these features – perhaps
because of a shortage of wood or because mud brick building
didn’t require the weight above an opening to be supported. Using
earth to build a house would make, of course, smoothing the
surfaces quite simple – and helped along by any rainfall.
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