Paul Sunshine works daily with timber-framed buildings, teaching homeowners and people in the building trade traditional methods of repair, such as wattle and daub and lime plastering. An alumna of the Princes Foundation Craft Scholarship Scheme, an organisation set up in 2002 to encourage the development of traditional building skills, she was presented in 2003 with the prestigious Hancocks Medal by HRH the Prince of Wales for her work with lime.

• Introduction The structure and make-up of wattle and daub The use of wattle and daub within later timber-framed buildings The decline in the use of wattle and daub How to make and repair wattle and daub oday Further reading Places to visit