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Picture rail: Functional moulding installed 2.1–2.7 metres (7–9 ft) above the floor from which framed art is hung, common in commercial buildings and homes with plaster walls. Rosette: Circular, floral decorative element found in Mesopotamian design and early Greek stele, common in revival styles of architecture since the Renaissance. [4]
The word plastic draws from the Ancient Greek πλαστικός (plastikós), which means 'to mold' or 'to shape'. [3] It has long preceded its dominant modern meaning as a synthetic material. The term plastic arts has been used historically to denote visual art forms (painting, sculpture, and ceramics) as opposed to literature or music.
Lofting is particularly useful in boat building, when it is used to draw and cut pieces for hulls and keels. These are usually curved, often in three dimensions . Loftsmen at the mould lofts of shipyards were responsible for taking the dimensions and details from drawings and plans, and translating this information into templates, battens ...
A building's surface detailing, inside and outside, often includes decorative moulding, and these often contain ogee-shaped profiles—consisting (from low to high) of a concave arc flowing into a convex arc, with vertical ends; if the lower curve is convex and higher one concave, this is known as a Roman ogee, although frequently the terms are used interchangeably and for a variety of other ...
Cavetto moulding Illustrations of various examples of ancient Egyptian cornices, all of them having cavettos. A cavetto is a concave moulding with a regular curved profile that is part of a circle, widely used in architecture as well as furniture, picture frames, metalwork and other decorative arts.
Neoclassical bead and reel on a piece of textile, by Séquin & Co. fro, Lyons, 1811, silk plain weave with silk brocading wefts, Philadelphia Museum of Art Art Nouveau frieze with festoons , bordered at the top by a bead and reel strip, in Calea Dorobanților no. 50A, Bucharest , Romania , unknown architect or sculptor, c. 1900
The dentil was the chief feature employed in the bedmould by the Romans and in the Italian Renaissance architecture.As a general rule, the projection of the dentil is equal to its width, thus appearing square, and the intervals between are half this measure.
Molding (American English) or moulding (British and Commonwealth English; see spelling differences) is the process of manufacturing by shaping liquid or pliable raw material using a rigid frame called a mold or matrix. [1]