If the aggregate is too big, the wall might crack because there is not enough clay in the space between pebbles to hold the plaster together firmly.
I laid on the floor of my sisters now empty bedroom for hours talking on their cordless phone with Dexter, staring up at the ceiling connecting the dots of the plaster together as if it were cosmic that we had found each other.
Putting up wallpaper to hold plaster together is a cheap DIY repair that many homeowners use, rather than forking over the money and effort required to make real repairs.
The bricks were plastered together with lime.
Lavish amounts of well-informed speculation, applied like plaster, hold together the bits she can actually document, but the result is a narrative that could have come straight from Trollope.
The IR spectrum of sample SGM8 (Figure 8) was dominated by characteristic bands of gypsum (CaSO4) at 3,554, 3,406, 1,689, 1,628, 1,130, 673, and 600 [19] of the plaster layer, together with weaker bands at 3,900 3,000, 1,740 1,600 and 1,470 1,250 cm−1, which could be attributed to humic substances from an earth carbon-based pigment [13].
The sculptures are created using a mix of traditional and modern processes so 3D printing, laser cut perspex, and plaster are mixed together, much like the identities that the materials are exploring.
Here also, he makes monstrous assemblage flowers for a ceramic pot and a watering can from wood, metal and crockery shards ingeniously stuck together with plaster and painted.
Frosinini said the water shrank the panels and dissolved the glue that had been used, together with plaster, to provide a surface for the painting.
It had all been broken, and so we took it out of the ground, and we eventually removed the whole encasing sand and fossil in a plaster jacket holding everything together.
Because the original skeleton consisted of bones from a dozen or so individuals, the scans were also used to create plaster casts that fit together better.
