EMESS

Our EBUKI Clayfest photographs page is now up and running! Have a look at what we got up to! ---------------------------------------------->

Hi all, Our next meeting will be held at Thimbleby Village Hall, Thimbleby, On: Monday 24th July 2017 At: 7pm onwards. Directions; From Lincoln side of Horncastle on the A158 take the B1190 signposed for Thimbleby for 1 mile. The village hall is the first building past the church nestled between the mud and studs. Postcode LN9 5RE There will be a short walk around the village followed by a meeting in the hall. Agenda; Report on the Clayfest. Report on the 'New build project' at the Village Museum. Potential workshop at the Heritage Skills Centre, Lincoln Castle over the Heritage Open Days weekend in September. Tumby workshop for students and/or public. Survey and information leaflets for mud and stud owners and local authorities. Annual meeting and lecture at Lincoln University. Involvement in formation of new natural building group. Events for 2018. If anyone has anything they would like to be discussed please let me know b

REPORT FOR EMESS ON CLAYFEST 2017 INTRODUCTION Clayfest was this year's festival of building with unfired clay, which which took place at the Heritage Skills Centre in the grounds of Lincoln Castle between Monday 12 th  and Saturday 17 th  June 2017. It was a demonstration of traditional building techniques which could be brought up-to-date for use in the 21 st century. The event was organised by the national group Earth Building in the United Kingdom and Ireland (EBUKI) with the help of the local group East Midlands Earth Structures Society (EMESS). This was the sixth annual national event which EBUKI have organised. They have followed the principle of holding the events in different parts of the British Isles noted for their particular local traditions of earth building techniques. Last year's event was in Cumberland, and next year's will be in Ireland. EMESS has a number of different local building techniques, but by far the greatest number are of the mud-an