The idea was Paris on the prairie: a luminous white city that would set Chicago’s south lakefront aglow in neoclassical magic. The ivory, ornamental buildings of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition were sculpted and embellished out of a centuries-old mixture of plaster and fiber that was...
cast in moulds made of gelatine or plaster of paris. For a cornice moulding two running rules are usual, one on the wall, the other on the ceiling, upon which the mould is worked to and fro by one workman, while another man roughly lays on the plaster to the shape of the moulding....
Blick’s own plaster cloth rolls of pre-shrunk cotton gauze fabric are impregnated with Plaster of Paris. They’re simple to use; just cut and dip strips of plaster cloth in warm water, then apply it layer over layer on wire armatures, cores, and body parts. When dry, Blick Plaster Cl...
The upshot was that he got hold of some plaster of paris bandage, made an armature (rough shape onto which to model) out of chicken wire andmodelled the Plaster bandage onto it. When it had dried sufficiently, he painted his simulated plaster rocks and the set was ready for the production...
Plaster of paris, quick-setting gypsum plaster consisting of a fine white powder, which hardens when moistened and allowed to dry. Given that it does not generally shrink or crack when dry, it is an excellent medium for casting molds. Learn more about ho
to treat with plaster of paris to affix to or place on especially conspicuously or in quantity to inflict heavy damage or loss on especially by a concentrated or unremitting attack intransitive verb to apply plaster plasterer同义词 n. 泥水匠;粉刷工;石膏师 ...
Four nineteenth-century casts of the decoration on the north side of the exterior of the apse of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris are held in the plaster casts collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The casts were manufactured by two different nineteenth-century workshops, one...