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The Hand-Sculpted House: A Practical and Philosophical Guide to Building a Cob Cottage

By Ianto Evans, Michael G. Smith, Linda Smiley, Deanne Bednar (Illustrator)
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By Ianto Evans, Michael G. Smith, Linda Smiley, Deanne Bednar (Illustrator)
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“The Hand-Sculpted House inspired me to learn and do more and transformed how I saw homes and building in general.”—Mother Earth News

“If you follow it word for word you will build yourself a house no matter who you are.”—Builder Paul Dillon, quoted in The Irish Times

Are you ready for the Cob Cottage?

This is a building method so old and so simple that it has been all but forgotten in the rush to synthetics. A cob cottage, however, might be the ultimate expression of ecological design, a stru...

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