Pargetting Workshop - April 2026

American College of the Building Arts

Two Day Course: April 25th & 26th

Charleston, South Carolina

6 Professionals: $750 | 4 Students: $295

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In this episode, we take you inside a hands-on pargetting workshop led by English pargetter James Collier. Through history, demonstration, and hands-on work, we explore how lime plaster relief has been used for centuries—and why it still belongs in the way we build today.

Pargetting is the forgotten art of sculpting walls with lime plaster. Once popular in Europe, this decorative craft transformed plain surfaces into angels, patterns, and stories carved directly into the walls themselves.

Available in the U.S.

Summer 2026

LimeCote by Best of Lime

Non-hydraulic | Breathable | Extraordinarily Flexible | Sustainable | Traditional | Beautiful

Limecote™ is based on a lost English medieval lime plaster recipe, once used commonly, particularly on timber framed buildings. It can still be easily found in 15th to 18th Century buildings – from the humblest thatched cottage to the grandest, high status mansions. It is highly likely that the recipe was used for one of the most extravagant buildings Europe has ever seen: Nonsuch Palace, Henry VIII's grandest and most elaborate building project. The building was timber framed and was decorated with 700 high relief stucco panels depicting classical scenes. This recipe has its roots in the Stucco mixes used in the classical world from 3,500BC. The connecting thread through history is the use of calcium carbonate instead of sand, be it marble dust, powdered limestone or crushed chalk.

Artwork By James Collier For Sale!

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