The Tabby Tradition: Old World. New Hands.

Long before concrete trucks rolled through the South, builders in the Lowcountry used a material called tabby. It was a rugged blend of oyster shells, lime, sand, and water. It was poured into timber forms and used to build everything from fort walls to cisterns to coastal homes.

The process was as resourceful as it was tough. Oyster shells were burned in kilns to create quicklime, then slaked with water to make lime putty. That lime was mixed with sand, water, and whole or crushed shells to form the final blend.

Tabby wasn’t just practical. It was genius. The oyster shells made it naturally resistant to humidity, salt air, and time. You can still find original tabby structures standing across Beaufort, Bluffton, and Savannah. Some have lasted more than 200 years.

We’re bringing that tradition back with a modern edge.

Our modern tabby pays tribute to this historic material while using advanced casting techniques to transform it into refined architectural pieces. We still use real oyster shells, locally sourced, and blend them into high-performance GFRC. The result is a surface that feels both ancient and elevated.

Timeless materials. Modern execution. Local soul.