Hand-sculpted House

Product Description

Are you ready for the Cob Cottage? This is a building method so old & so simple that it has been all but forgotten in the rush to synthetics. A cob cottage cobb however might be the ultimate expression of ecological design a structure so attuned to its surroundings that its creators refer to it as an ecstatic house." The authors build a house the way others create a natural garden. They use the oldest most available materials imaginable
- earth clay sand straw & water
- & blend them to redefine the future (and past) of building. Cob (the word comes from an Old English root meaning "lump") is a mixture of non-toxic recyclable & often free materials. Building with cob requires no forms no cement & no machinery of any kind. Builders actually sculpt their structures by h&. Building with earth is nothing new to America; the oldest structures on the continent were built with adobe bricks. Adobe however has been geographically limited to the Southwest. The limits of cob are defined only by the builder's imagination. Cob offers answers regarding our role in Nature family & society about why we feel the ways that we do about what's missing in our lives. Cob comes as a revelation a key to a saner world."