Tadelakt is a water-resistant,
lime-based plaster, for use on interior and exterior locations.
It is ideal for bathroom walls and floors, as it is waterproof.
Tadelakt offers a most elegant and serene atmosphere from a single wall in
a room to
complete wet areas.
Steam rooms, fire places, table tops and pillars can not escape the charms
of Tadelakt.
This lime-based plaster follows the style of the old Moroccan Tadelakt tradition.
Tadelakt is available in Delphi White to which pigments may be added for an
extra range of colours.
You can also choose from
a pre coloured range:
Roman Ochre, Nassau Orange, Djenne Red, Iquitos Green and Gomera Gray.
Tadelakt
Tadelakt is a Moroccan render technique. A special lime render is applied and
compressed with stones. This results in a compact shiny surface.
This lime material is not only used for exterior and interior walls but also
for floors,
bathtubs, showers, table surfaces and especially in Hammams.
Tadelakt is addictive The shiny surface of Tadelakt exudes a hard to describe
fascination,
which almost nobody can escape.
One is almost compelled to touch the surface.
Tadelakt The way the material
is applied produces a fascinating slightly wavy, living,
naturally shiny surface.
The colour tone of Tadelakt is not regular like in normal pigmented render,
but depends
on the application. Where the material is more compressed,
a darker colour tone will result.
The surface of Tadelakt seems to change in
colour tones depending on the lighting conditions.
History There are no detailed documents about Tadelakt available, but oral
information in
Marrakech gives us the following details:
Tadelakt has been around since the middle ages.
In the beginning the technique
was used to waterproof cisterns which where used to collect
drinking water. Later on it was used in Hammams, oriental baths and in palaces.
Traditionally the Berbers who passed on their knowledge from
generation to generation
applied the Tadelakt technique.
Tadelakt comes from the
Moroccan verb "dellek" which means to kneed or squash.
The
Material There is a natural deposit of limestone in the area
of Marrakech.
Due to the geological uniqueness of that area, the lime produced
there has a special
composition of minerals. With that, nature
has given the Moroccan people a material that,
when burnt and subsequently "extinguished" with
water, results in a high density lime render.
When the lime render is coloured with lime compatible pigments and treated
with black soap,
these fascinating surfaces are the result.
Research has found that this Moroccan lime is highly hydrophobic.
With this
and the compression technique, the end result is a strong
and waterproof surface.
The Moroccan material has naturally occurring quality
variations and does not possess
necessarily an ideal sieve line.
It has to be sieved at the building site and must be tried on a test area before
every application.
In most Moroccan Tadelakt applications we
inspected, we discovered fine cracks.
Because burnt hydrophobic lime can only
be stored for a limited time and transporting lime
over great distances is not economical, a Tadelakt product with available raw
materials
was developed.
NATURAL PAINT Tadelakt is a material that has most of the Moroccan properties,
but through optimising the sieve line, the material is easier to smooth
