The Hand-Sculpted House : Chelsea Green Publishing : 9781890132347 : 1890132349 : 01 Jan 1990 : "The Hand-Sculpted House inspired me to learn and do more and transformed how I saw homes and building in general."?Mother Earth News "If you follow it word for word you will build yourself a house no matter who you are."?Builder Paul Dillon, quoted in The Irish Times Are you ready for the Cob Cottage? This is a building method so old and so simple that it has been all but forgotten in the rush to synthetics. A cob cottage, however, might be the ultimate expression of ecological design, a structure so attuned to its surroundings that its creators refer to it as ?an ecstatic house.? The authors build a house the way others create a natural garden. They use the oldest, most available materials imaginable?earth, clay, sand, straw, and water?and blend them to redefine the future (and past) of building. Cob (the word comes from an Old English root, meaning ?lump?) is a mixture of non-toxic, r