Pargeting

[1] Patrick Leigh Fermor describes similar decorations on pre-World War II buildings in Linz, Austria.

"Pargeted façades rose up, painted chocolate, green, purple, cream and blue.

They were adorned with medallions in high relief and the stone and plaster scroll-work gave them a feeling of motion and flow.

[3] However, the term is more usually applied only to the decoration in relief of the plastering between the studwork on the outside of half-timber houses, or sometimes covering the whole wall.

This seems generally to have been done by sticking a number of pins in a board in certain lines or curves, and then pressing on the wet plaster in various directions, so as to form geometrical figures.

Pargeting on the upper wall of the County Museum in Clare, Suffolk .
The Ancient House in Ipswich has a particularly fine example of pargeting, depicting scenes from the four continents. When the hall was built in 1670, Australia and Antarctica had not yet been discovered by Europeans, and the Americas were considered a single continent.