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Picture shows a wood wool board for support for lime plaster or stucco. Plaster is "Glaster", lime plaster with recycled glass for an aggregate.

Lightweight reinforcing fibers allow plaster to be filled to this thickness in a single day, and is real durable. Marks are from people beating on it, to show it's durability.

This was at last year's Smithsonian folk life festival. Ty-Mawr shows off their very traditional, and earth friendly plaster products.

Please click here to visit Ty-Mawr's site:

My column about Ty-Mawr is here:

A clear understanding of what holds plaster or stucco mortar is important in why this material works, and why it fails. Plaster is bonded by one of three things:

1. A mechanical key.

2. Chemical bond.

3. Suction bond.

Suction refers to the absorption of water.

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