Building and Creating with Cob
Building for Free with "Alternative" Natural Materials - A very useful article about various ways of building with cob from a 1998 issue of Countryside magazine.
Cob Building - This page from a homesteading site is an alphabetic compendium of resources about various types of alternative building. Cob Building is only a short way down the page.
Cob Cottage Company - An association of some of the great names in modern cob construction. Drawing on the ways of traditional cultures, direct observation of nature and constant experimentation today The Cob Cottage Company provides information, support and inspiration for people building with natural materials and most specifically cob. Photos, books, videos, workshops, trainings. Click here for a multi-media presentation about Cob Cottage Company.
Cob in Cornwall - This two section web site is by the authors of the well reviewed Building with Cob - A Step by Step Guide. One side takes you to a page about their book with excerpts to read and enjoy from this very beautiful book. The other side of the web site has photos of their projects, some information about building with cob, links and so on. This site is as beautiful as their book. Aesthetically inspiring.
Cob: Technology of the Past, NOW - This is from a Campus Center for Appropriate Technology page. There is a brief listing of advantages to building with cob, advisories about where and how to build with it and how to dispose of it if the structure is no longer needed. All of this information is followed by very useful photographs with brief descriptions that illustrate the steps of building a cob structure. There are also photos of various cob buildings and benches, both old and new, from various spots. The very bottom of the page contains related links.
History of Cob Building - This nice looking page details the history of building with cob spanning all the way from ancient times through to the modern cob renaissance and including what is now known as "Oregon cob."
How to Build with Cob - There are brief descriptions on this page about how to build with cob, where to find materials and so on. What is really unique here are the photos and directions for how to build large outdoor cob benches. They are beautiful. Take a look.
The Cob Builders Handbook - Here on this web page, you can find the first half or so of this foundational book about hand-sculpting your own home.
The Hand-Sculpted House - This page on the Oasis Design web site gives a brief summary of this important book on cob building. Here you can read the Introduction, the Table of Contents and an excerpt.
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