This document is an updated and corrected version of my Masters degree dissertation ‘The Pargeting of Saffron Walden’, University of Cambridge, 2023.
Feel free to use the textual material, provided the source is acknowledged. However, all photographic illustrations are copyright and may not be reproduced without permission. If not otherwise indicated, all images are recent, located in Saffron Walden and by the author. Please contact me if you have comments or questions.
Anna Kettle
I have been working as a self employed pargeter and parget conservator for 25 years and most of my work has been in Suffolk, England. During that time I have tried to understand the history and motivation for the various old pargets that I have seen. Despite its significance in the realm of vernacular English crafts, pargeting has received little scholarly attention and the pargeters themselves have shown more interest in actually doing the work than in writing about it.
This document therefore represents the first comprehensive attempt to document the techniques, practitioners, locations, and historical changes associated with pargeting.
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