Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In 1519, the 80-year-old former master of Eton College, William Horman, showed a peculiar interest in white surfaces ...

Pargeting is the art of creating patterns in wet plaster on the outside of a building, writes John Norman, of The Ipswich Society. Some would argue it’s not an art but a craft, the plaster doesn’t ...

Q: Our 1920s Colonial has a stone foundation with some sort of cement coating on the interior. Much of the coating has flaked off, exposing the mortar joints, which are disintegrating. We recently had ...

Ian Warren is an expert at pargeting, one of 90 endangered crafts in the UK Traditional skills - some of which have been around for millennia - are at risk of dying out because so few people practise ...

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