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Cob: kleiwerks -- cob slipstraw earth plaster bamboo (2)Shabari Bird birdnest at alltel.netThu Apr 5 20:17:33 CDT 2001
kleiwerks -- cob | slipstraw | earth plaster | bamboo
Kleiwerks can work with you to custom design your one-of-a-kind natural home and we have a crew to build it.
Interested? Please contact us.
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We can teach a workshop at your site to help you along with your project. You will need to have:
a.. taken a workshop
b.. room for about 20 campers
c.. kitchen, toilet & shower facilities
d.. the site and building materials ready to go
e.. the time & dedication for it to happen
Interested? Please contact us.
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Mud was used in the first structures ever built. About two-thirds of the people living on the planet right now live in mud houses. Mud is abundant. Mud is free. Mud is nontoxic. Mud is beautiful. Mud is easy and it feels good. Anyone can do mud. Mud makes sense!
Cob
Cob is pottery on a grand scale, a freeform art of natural building that's more like sculpture than carpentry. After kneading a mixture of clay, sand and straw by doing the "barefoot boogie," you literally hand-sculpt your home from the foundation up, much like you would a bowl or vase, only the walls are much thicker. Curves and detail work, beautiful objects and recycled materials are all easily incorporated, enhancing the uniqueness of your creation. Because cob is simple, affordable, nontoxic and long-lasting (not to mention fun), this ancient art is currently enjoying an enthusiastic revival.
Slipstraw
(a.k.a. light strawclay in-fill)
Quicker to build and higher in insulative value, slipstraw is a wonderful partner to cob and an excellent addition to the natural building repertoire. After coating loose straw with clay slip (like tossing a salad with dressing), you simply pack the slip-coated straw between forms. As soon as you pack them, the forms can be removed, leaving you with a beautiful, durable, soundproof, nontoxic, fire, rot & rodent-proof wall that quite resembles Japanese handmade paper. Slipstraw is also a great alternative to strawbale construction as it is easier to plaster and handles water vapor well in wet and cold climates.
Earth Plaster & Paint
There is a wide array of earth plasters and paints. This final touch to your earthen home is essentially the same as the walls themselves only the aggregates and fibers are much smaller. Several coats of plaster are used, getting finer and finer as you go until you have a customized finish of texture, color and shine that is all your own. Along with this you can have extra fun with additives varying from sour cream to prickly pear juice, mineral oxides to mica flakes. Plastering can be such a delight that some people are known to say it's the reason they built in the first place...it's like icing on the cake!
Bamboo
Bamboo! This incredible renewable resource with all its varied applications is only just beginning to be recognized and appreciated in the west. And thank goodness! You will be overwhelmed discovering the multitudes of uses and building potential you have with this fast growing grass. From floor to ceiling; decorative to functional; organic to elegant, there are simple techniques to work our way out of deforestation and into our newest passion... Bamboo! Kleiwerks is thrilled to have recently teamed up with bamboo-ists Carol Stangler, Michel Spaan and Francisco Plaza. We are excited about all the potential collaborations to come.
Back to Index | Back to Top
In 2001 Janell Kapoor, avid mud mama and founder of Kleiwerks, is moving into her fifth year of teaching people of all ages and backgrounds the joys of natural building. Her enthusiasm, experience and passion for creating spaces that make sense and feel good to the soul have taken her as far as India and as close as her own backyard of Asheville, N.C. where she teaches at colleges, public parks and private homes. She, with many others, built the first permitted cob cottage in N.C. Since an early age Janell has had her hands in the mud, designing and making little dwellings of all kinds.
Mollie Curry, five-year resident of Earthaven Ecovillage, has helped build the community from the ground up. She has worked with slipstraw, strawbale, earth plaster, cob and other innovative techniques. Her love for and connection with earth has led Mollie to the conscious use of natural materials to make beautiful homes. Mollie currently works with Kleiwerks and Culture's Edge teaching natural building and permaculture. She is also recently rediscovering her creativity and joyfully letting it loose!
Carol Stangler is author of an upcoming book about working with bamboo to be released in Fall 2001. As an environmental artist she started earnestly working with bamboo in 1991 when she received grants to experiment artistically with bamboo. Since then she has traveled to Japan, built distinctive fences, discovered and developed techniques and has researched sources for tools and materials... all for her love of bamboo. Along with workshops and residencies she also teaches at the School of Art and Design at Georgia State University in Atlanta. She has received numerous grants and honors, including the 1997 Georgia Arts Commission on Women Award for her "Outstanding Contribution to the Visual Arts." She currently lives and works in her "Bird Tribe Studio" in Asheville, N.C.
Self taught bamboo-ist, Michel Spaan, has been fascinated with the plant ever since his first trip to Asia in 1981. His keen eye for design and construction has led him to work in galleries and private homes from the U.S. to his homeland of Holland. Michel specializes in creating beautiful, elegant and functional structures. He is excited to share with others what he has learned about building with bamboo over the past 20 years.
Back after five months of bamboo training at Agro Indeba, a furniture making center in Costa Rica, Francisco Plaza is designing furniture and bamboo interiors in the Piedmont. Trained in carpentry, cob and slipstraw Francisco is currently working with the newly formed Red Dirt Natural Builders in Chapel Hill, NC.
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For more information or to register please contact:
Before March 21, 2001 e-mail janell at kleiwerks.com
After March 21, 2001 call Janell Kapoor at (828) 252-7701
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Cob Cottage Company Cottage Grove, OR
Groundworks Murphy, OR
Earthaven/Culture's Edge Black Mountain, NC
Women Build Houses NM
Cobworks Mayne Island, BC
Jan Sturmann Shutesbury, MA
DesignCoalition Madison, WI
Build Here Now Lamas Foundation, NM
Bird's Nest Retreat North GA
The Permaculture Activist Periodical
SVI/Moonshadow mediarights at bledsoe.net Sequatchie Valley, TN
Red Dirt Natural Builders red_dirt22 at hotmail.com Chapel Hill, NC
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HOSTING A WORKSHOP | OUR INSTRUCTORS
CONTACTING KLEIWERKS | RELATED LINKS
Graphic Design by Jim Bixby: bixjimby at mindspring.com
Coding by Julian Hockings: www.crunch42.com
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<P>Kleiwerks can work with you to custom design your one-of-a-kind natural
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<P>We can teach a workshop at your site to help you along with your
project. You will need to have:</P>
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<LI>taken a workshop
<LI>room for about 20 campers
<LI>kitchen, toilet & shower facilities
<LI>the site and building materials ready to go
<LI>the time & dedication for it to happen<BR></LI></UL>Interested?
Please <A href="#contacting">contact us</A>.
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<P>Mud was used in the first structures ever built. About two-thirds of
the people living on the planet right now live in mud houses. Mud is
abundant. Mud is free. Mud is nontoxic. Mud is beautiful. Mud is easy and
it feels good. Anyone can do mud. Mud makes sense!</P>
<P><A name=cob></A><FONT size=4><B>Cob</B></FONT><BR>Cob is pottery on a
grand scale, a freeform art of natural building that's more like sculpture
than carpentry. After kneading a mixture of clay, sand and straw by doing
the "barefoot boogie," you literally hand-sculpt your home from the
foundation up, much like you would a bowl or vase, only the walls are much
thicker. Curves and detail work, beautiful objects and recycled materials
are all easily incorporated, enhancing the uniqueness of your creation.
Because cob is simple, affordable, nontoxic and long-lasting (not to
mention fun), this ancient art is currently enjoying an enthusiastic
revival.</P>
<P><A name=slipstraw></A><FONT size=4><B>Slipstraw </B></FONT><BR>(a.k.a.
light strawclay in-fill)<BR>Quicker to build and higher in insulative
value, slipstraw is a wonderful partner to cob and an excellent addition
to the natural building repertoire. After coating loose straw with clay
slip (like tossing a salad with dressing), you simply pack the slip-coated
straw between forms. As soon as you pack them, the forms can be removed,
leaving you with a beautiful, durable, soundproof, nontoxic, fire, rot
& rodent-proof wall that quite resembles Japanese handmade paper.
Slipstraw is also a great alternative to strawbale construction as it is
easier to plaster and handles water vapor well in wet and cold
climates.</P>
<P><A name=earthplaster></A><FONT size=4><B>Earth Plaster &
Paint</B></FONT><BR>There is a wide array of earth plasters and paints.
This final touch to your earthen home is essentially the same as the walls
themselves only the aggregates and fibers are much smaller. Several coats
of plaster are used, getting finer and finer as you go until you have a
customized finish of texture, color and shine that is all your own. Along
with this you can have extra fun with additives varying from sour cream to
prickly pear juice, mineral oxides to mica flakes. Plastering can be such
a delight that some people are known to say it's the reason they built in
the first place...it's like icing on the cake!</P>
<P><A name=bamboo></A><FONT size=4><B>Bamboo</B></FONT><BR>Bamboo! This
incredible renewable resource with all its varied applications is only
just beginning to be recognized and appreciated in the west. And thank
goodness! You will be overwhelmed discovering the multitudes of uses and
building potential you have with this fast growing grass. From floor to
ceiling; decorative to functional; organic to elegant, there are simple
techniques to work our way out of deforestation and into our newest
passion... Bamboo! Kleiwerks is thrilled to have recently teamed up with
bamboo-ists Carol Stangler, Michel Spaan and Francisco Plaza. We are
excited about all the potential collaborations to come.</P>
<P><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><A
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<P><A name=janell></A><IMG height=104 src="Images/janel.jpg" width=100> In
2001 <B>Janell Kapoor</B>, avid mud mama and founder of Kleiwerks, is
moving into her fifth year of teaching people of all ages and backgrounds
the joys of natural building. Her enthusiasm, experience and passion for
creating spaces that make sense and feel good to the soul have taken her
as far as India and as close as her own backyard of Asheville, N.C. where
she teaches at colleges, public parks and private homes. She, with many
others, built the first permitted cob cottage in N.C. Since an early age
Janell has had her hands in the mud, designing and making little dwellings
of all kinds.</P>
<P><B><A name=mollie></A><IMG height=104 src="Images/mollie.jpg"
width=100> Mollie Curry</B>, five-year resident of Earthaven Ecovillage,
has helped build the community from the ground up. She has worked with
slipstraw, strawbale, earth plaster, cob and other innovative techniques.
Her love for and connection with earth has led Mollie to the conscious use
of natural materials to make beautiful homes. Mollie currently works with
Kleiwerks and Culture's Edge teaching natural building and permaculture.
She is also recently rediscovering her creativity and joyfully letting it
loose!</P>
<P><B><A name=carol></A><IMG height=104 src="Images/carol.jpg" width=100>
Carol Stangler</B> is author of an upcoming book about working with bamboo
to be released in Fall 2001. As an environmental artist she started
earnestly working with bamboo in 1991 when she received grants to
experiment artistically with bamboo. Since then she has traveled to Japan,
built distinctive fences, discovered and developed techniques and has
researched sources for tools and materials... all for her love of bamboo.
Along with workshops and residencies she also teaches at the School of Art
and Design at Georgia State University in Atlanta. She has received
numerous grants and honors, including the 1997 Georgia Arts Commission on
Women Award for her "Outstanding Contribution to the Visual Arts." She
currently lives and works in her "Bird Tribe Studio" in Asheville,
N.C.</P>
<P><A name=michel></A><IMG height=104 src="Images/michel.jpg" width=95>
Self taught bamboo-ist, <B>Michel Spaan</B>, has been fascinated with the
plant ever since his first trip to Asia in 1981. His keen eye for design
and construction has led him to work in galleries and private homes from
the U.S. to his homeland of Holland. Michel specializes in creating
beautiful, elegant and functional structures. He is excited to share with
others what he has learned about building with bamboo over the past 20
years.</P>
<P><A name=francisco></A><IMG height=103 src="Images/soon.gif" width=100>
Back after five months of bamboo training at Agro Indeba, a furniture
making center in Costa Rica, <B>Francisco Plaza</B> is designing furniture
and bamboo interiors in the Piedmont. Trained in carpentry, cob and
slipstraw Francisco is currently working with the newly formed Red Dirt
Natural Builders in Chapel Hill, NC.</P>
<P><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=2><A
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<P>For more information or to register please contact:<BR>Before March 21,
2001 e-mail <A
href="mailto:janell at kleiwerks.com">janell at kleiwerks.com</A><BR>After March
21, 2001 call Janell Kapoor at (828) 252-7701</P>
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<P><A href="http://www.deatech.com/cobcottage">Cob Cottage Company</A>
Cottage Grove, OR<BR><A
href="http://www.cpros.com/%7Esequoia">Groundworks</A> Murphy, OR<BR><A
href="http://www.earthaven.org">Earthaven/Culture's Edge</A> Black
Mountain, NC<BR><A href="http://www.tucsonconnections.com/wbh">Women Build
Houses</A> NM<BR><A href="http://www.cobworks.com">Cobworks</A> Mayne
Island, BC<BR><A href="http://www.inti-solutions.com/cob">Jan Sturmann</A>
Shutesbury, MA<BR><A
href="http://www.designcoalition.org">DesignCoalition</A> Madison,
WI<BR><A href="http://www.strawhomes.com/build/here/now.html">Build Here
Now</A> Lamas Foundation, NM<BR><A
href="http://www.christopherbird.org">Bird's Nest Retreat</A> North
GA<BR><A href="http://www.permacultureactivist.net">The Permaculture
Activist</A> Periodical <BR>SVI/Moonshadow <A
href="mailto:mediarights at bledsoe.net">mediarights at bledsoe.net</A>
Sequatchie Valley, TN<BR>Red Dirt Natural Builders <A
href="mailto:red_dirt22 at hotmail.com">red_dirt22 at hotmail.com</A> Chapel
Hill, NC</P>
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by Julian Hockings: <A
href="http://www.crunch42.com">www.crunch42.com</A></FONT></P>
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