No, you fix battens to the timber/brick/stone/SomethingThatIsStrongEnough and then hang things off the battens
Typical DIY'ers!
We don't have stone here in sunny Suffolk so I'm not at all up on this one. If you don't get a reply here then your best bet is to ask on
Pity cos when they have to use it they end up being very enthusiastic. Its nice stuff to use. Maybe you should offer to send a likely plasterer on a one day 'Lime plastering for plasterers' course. There is bound to be one near you sometime
Anna
~~ Anna Kettle, Suffolk, England |""""| ~ Lime plaster repairs / ^^ \ // Freehand modelling in lime: overmantels, pargeting etc |____|