Old-fashioned method of plastering a wall or ceiling using slender timbers to construct a narrow gauge frame as a base for the wet plaster.

thin flat strips of wood used collectively as a foundation for supporting plaster.

Rarely used nowadays, lath and plaster is method of constructing partition walls and ceilings. Thin strips of wood (laths) are nailed to the softwood frame and plaster is applied over the top.

The most common wall finish prior to the introduction of drywall. Thin wood strips (lath) were nailed onto the framing as a base for the sand/lime plaster (see diagram).

the most common wall finish prior to the introduction of drywall. Thin wood strips (lath) were nailed onto the framing as a base for the plaster producing a wall with a beautiful, old world texture.

Lath and plaster is a building process used mainly for interior walls in the United States until the late 1950s. After the 1950s, drywall began to replace the lath and plaster process.