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Michael Blaha's I Love Cob! is a web site devoted to natural building with a main focus on that fancy stuff called Cob - otherwise known as monolithic adobe. Cob is a fancy stuff. It’s molecules are constructed of a the very cosmic stuff that makes up the earth… well it is earth. This earth is a mixture of clay, sand and straw. Sometimes I call it adobe – un-serrated; monolithic adobe; puddled adobe. Cob translates to lump or mass from the old english. When making it, cobbers knead it like bread dough into cobs or hand sized balls. You can also spend less time by just grabbing bit chunks and applying it to the wall; this technique is called Daub Cob. You massage it into the wall with your hands and feet. And when they wear out a cobber’s thumb. It fits a certain ergonomic and ecological profile. It’s additive and subtractive. Malleable and sculptable. You can recycle, reuse, and reconstitute it. Let it melt away back into the earth from which it came. Build sky scrapers with it, ovens, sheds, homes, garden walls. Make curves and sculptural spaces. The possibilities are endless.