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Norfolk Magazine September, 2006 norfolk_magazine_sep_06 PDF 664kb, 30 sec or less over ADSL, click to view

A Labour of Love

By Adrian Judd

Resembling the mythical and almost ethnic, cob houses are quite something to see. Rising quietly out of the earth from which they came, they sit peacefully alongside the rest of nature. And with techniques dating back thousands of years, cob building is "not just some New Age hippy drivel," as Kate Edwards, who has just completed the first project of her new eco-build venture, tells us.

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The Times May 02, 2006

It's a mud hut school for a down-to-earth generation . . .

By Bill Taylor and Fran Yeoman

Newquay is to get a new school, but its walls will be built not from bricks and mortar but the ultimate eco-friendly material: earth. A husband-and-wife team who run a small building company using traditional "cob-building" methods have won a commission to help to build Holy Trinity School.

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Blogspot 9 Oct 2005

Cob building in the country

by Amanda Kovattana

Some things just have to be experienced. Cob building is one of those things. Of all the earth-building methods, cob building embodies a mystery in its sensuous curvy walls. How does it work? How does it get built? While straw bale building is easily visualized by looking at pictures - you see the bales, then the walls, the roof and there you have it, a house - cob building is better understood as pottery or sculpture.

I had long been looking for a cob building experience. ... So when the Solar Living Institute offered a five-day cob-building workshop near Santa Barbara ...

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Cob oven, click to enlarge

Cob oven, being built

Cob artists studio glass roof, click to enlarge

Cob artists studio, Norfolk

Cob artists studio, click to enlarge

Cob artists studio, Norfolk

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