After the workshop participants left, a crew of carpenters from Xylosinuous joined us to finish hemping all the walls … right up to the top where the going got slow as we needed to tamp the hemp horizontally into the space between the top of the formwork and the bottom of the weatherboards. So, in total, it took us 5 days of teamwork to get the hemp walls up! After the last day of hemping, Sophie (of Upcycled by Sophie fame), created wonderful window frames around our old Federation windows; Xylosinuous carpenters created their signature curvy frames for the internal walls; and I patched holes in the hemp (left by formwork attachments and some dodgy workshop tamping under steel beams).
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- Still Life with Apprentice
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- Top tamping takes time!
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- Sinuous frames for internal walls.
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- Sophie up-cycling Federation style windows
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- Carpentry Crew!
Hemp Building @ Foresthaven 