Using light clay straw on a vertical fill.

Unless the Lord build the house.....

Adding light clay straw to fill in holes

 before we add the overall layer of clay.

Adding light clay straw to cover a post. Light clay straw is just straw mixed with clay
I made this mix with more clay so that it would have more molding ability.
I formed it into cylinder shaped, or log shaped lengths first,
and then built the lengths in a stacking fashion.
Note the burlap covering the post and window edges. This will
allow for the wood to shrink without disturbing the clay.
However I think the light clay straw would do okay
even without it. It retains a certain flexible tolerance because of all the straw in it.

You can see the stacking pattern if you look closely.

We used the same light clay straw mix between the rafters.