Pargeting
Pargeting (or sometimes pargetting) is a decorative or waterproofing
Patrick Leigh Fermor describes similar decorations on pre-World War II buildings in Linz, Austria. "Pargeted façades rose up, painted chocolate, green, purple, cream and blue. They were adorned with medallions in high relief and the stone and plaster scroll-work gave them a feeling of motion and flow."[2]
Pargeting derives from the word 'parget', a Middle English term that is probably derived from the Old French pargeter or parjeter, to throw about, or porgeter, to roughcast a wall.
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
The term is also applied to the lining of the inside of smoke flues to form an even surface for the passage of the smoke.[4]
See also
- Harl
- Parge coat
- Plasterwork
- Yeseria
References
- ISBN 0-297-78312-2.
- ISBN 978-1-59017-165-3).
- ^ Webster's Dictionary.
- ^ a b c public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Pargetting". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
External links
- Media related to Pargeting at Wikimedia Commons
- Buxbaum, Tim (2001). "Pargeting". The Building Conservation Directory.