Ryedale Plasterers honing their skills & techniques
Ryedale Plasterers honing their skills & techniques, today in a class on creating Venetian Plaster…
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Stone and Brick Repairs
After running a plastic stone repair training day on Tuesday the repairs are now dry. The day looked…
Oil Paints and Distempers used to create an Illusion
Probably early 19th century painted on timber wainscoting and skirting boards in a Baroque Pallazo dating…
Marbeleizing with Natural Oil Paints
The stair case to the Noble Floor of the Palazzo Nicolaci, Noto is decorated as if it where marble. …
The iron rich limestone and aggregates of south east Sicily
The iron rich limestone and aggregates of south east Sicily. Colouring the stone, lime mortars and lime…
The Cathedral Church of Saint Nicolo presents a fine Baroque façade
The Cathedral Church of Saint Nicolo presents a fine Baroque façade, designed by Architect Francesco…
Lime Mortars have always had to with stand extreme weather and seas
Lime Mortars have always had to with stand extreme weather and seas. This photo shows The Castello Maniace…
The beautiful Noto limestone cladding Noto's Baroque Buildings
The historical centres of Mediterranean cities are characterized by buildings, especially monumental…
Beautifully weathered lime render
The church of San Giuseppe dominates the Piazza IX Aprile, next to the clock tower in Taormina, Sicily…
Brick and Stone Formwork Exposed behind Lime Stucco Render
A picture from 1906 showing the earlier lime stucco render and its detail at the cornice level at the…
Lime stucco repairs to capitals
Lime and Plaster of Paris stucco repairs to capitals and repaired cornice work at the Church of the …
Lime Stucco Work by Giovanni Bagutti
An image of Fame created by hand from gauged lime plaster by the stuccatori Giovanni Bagutti. This can…
Historic Lime Kiln at Shap
An early 19th Century Lime Kiln at Shap, Cumbria. Built with Snecked drystone rubble walls with visible…
Use of mobile elevated platforms in Theatres
The installation of load bearing structures by theatres' to carry a mobile elevated platform is a massive…
Repairing clay daub and lime plaster on panels of riven lath and insulating externally with insulated lime renders
Repairing clay daub and lime plaster on panels of riven lath and insulating externally with insulated…
Plaster, Daub and Render Survey at Old Hall Farm
Restoration Projects Ltd instructed Womersleys Ltd to undertake a visual plaster survey and prepare …
Helping the Canal and River Trust Volunteers
Womersleys helped guide volunteers working for the Canal and River Trust in the repointing and selective…
Working with volunteers on the Chesterfield Canal
Womersleys helped train Volunteers from the Canal and River Trust in the use of lime mortars for the…
An introduction to Lead Work Training Day
An Introduction to Lead Work at Kirkgate Training Day Womersleys were delighted to run another training…
Creating Formwork and Constructing an Arch
Womersleys ran a training day, held at the Art Hostel in Leeds, for a group of architects, surveys, …
Womersleys training course Sicily
Church of San Nicola, Castelmola,1934. Womersleys training course Sicily
Training Course Sicily: Chuch of San Nicola
Church of San Nicola, Castelmola, built 1934
Training Course Sicily Building Kiln
Making a start on building a lime kiln. Womersleys training course Taormina, Sicily
Real Market Places
This is what markets used to be like, and still are in Agra