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PAPIER
See also:MACH$ (See also:French for mashed or pulped See also:paper), a See also:term embracing numerous manufactures in which paper pulp is employed, pressed and moulded into various forms other than See also:uniform sheets
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The See also:art has See also:long been practised in the See also:East
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See also:Persian papier mache has long been noted, and in See also:Kashmir under the name of kar-i-kalamdani, or See also:pen-See also:tray See also:work, the manufacture of small painted boxes, trays and cases of papier mache is a characteristic See also:industry
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In See also:Japan articles are made by gluing together a number of sheets of paper, when in a See also:damp See also:condition, upon moulds
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See also:China also produces elegant papier mache articles
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About the See also:middle of the 18th See also:century papier mache work came into prominence in See also:Europe in the See also:form of trays, boxes and other small domestic articles, japanned and ornamented in See also:imitation of See also:Oriental manufactures of the same class, or of lacquered See also:wood; and contemporaneously papier mache See also:snuff-boxes ornamented in vernis See also: For the later date, see J . B . See also:Lightfoot, Essays on " Supernatural See also:Religion" (1889), pp . 142-216 . is for See also:plaster in the moulded ornaments of See also:roofs and walls, and the See also:ordinary roofing felts, too, are very closely allied in their See also:composition to papier macho . Under the name of ceramic papier macho, architectural enrichments are also made of a composition derived from paper pulp, See also:resin, See also:glue, a drying oil and acetate of See also:lead . Among the other articles for which the substance is used may be enumerated masks, dolls' heads and other toys, anatomical and botanical See also:models, artists' See also:ray figures, milliners' and clothiers' blocks, See also:mirror and picture-frames, tubes, &c . The materials for the commoner classes of work are old See also:waste and scrap paper, repulped and mixed with a strong See also:size of glue and See also:paste . To this very often are added large quantities of ground See also:chalk, clay and See also:fine See also:sand, so that the preparation is little more than a plaster held together by the fibrous pulp . Wood pulp (from See also:Sweden) is now largely used for making papier macho . For the finest class of work Clay's See also:original method is retained . It consists of soaking several sheets of a specially made paper in a strong size of paste and glue, pasting these together, and pressing them in the See also:mould of the See also:article to be made . The moulded See also:mass is dried in a See also:stove, and, if necessary, further similar layers of paper are added, till the required thickness is attained . The dried See also:object is hardened by dipping in oil, after which it is variously trimmed and prepared for See also:japanning and ornamentation . For very delicate See also:relief ornaments, a pulp of scrap paper is prepared, which after drying is ground to See also:powder mixed with paste and a proportion of potash, all of which are thoroughly incorporated into a fine smooth stiff paste . The numerous processes by which See also:surface decoration is applied to papier macho differ in no way from the application of like ornamentation to other surfaces . Papier macho for its See also:weight is an exceedingly tough, strong, durable substance, possessed of some See also:elasticity, little subject to warp or fracture, and unaffected by damp . See L . E . See also:Andes, See also:Die Fabrikation der Papiermache- and Papierstoff-Waaren (See also:Vienna, 1900); A . Winzer, Die Bereitung and Beniitzstng der Papiermache and dhnlicher Kompositionen (4th ed., See also:Weimar, 1907) . |
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