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Pargeting
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Pargeting (or sometimes pargetting) is a decorative plastering applied to building walls. The technique is largely confined to East Anglia in England.
Pargeting derives from the word 'parget', a Middle English term that is probably derived from the Old French 'pargeter' / 'parjeter', to throw about, or 'porgeter', to roughcast a wall. (Source: Webster.) However, the term is more usually applied only to the decoration in relief of the plastering between the studwork on the outside of half-timber houses, or sometimes covering the whole wall. The devices were stamped on the wet plaster. This seems generally to have been done by sticking a number of pins in a board in certain lines or curves, and then pressing on the wet plaster in various directions, so as to form geometrical figures. Sometimes these devices are in relief, and in the time of Elizabeth I of England represent figures, birds and foliages, fine examples are to be seen at Ipswich, Maidstone, Newark-on-Trent.
The term is also applied to the lining of the inside of smoke flues to form an even surface for the passage of the smoke.
This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.