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  2. Gesso - Wikipedia

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    Gesso is traditionally a mix of an animal glue binder (usually rabbit-skin glue), chalk, and white pigment. For priming flexible canvas, an emulsion of gesso and linseed oil, also called "half-chalk ground", is used. [4] Acrylic gesso is a mixture of white pigment and some kind of filler (chalk, silica, etc.) and acrylic resin dispersed in water.

  3. Whitewash - Wikipedia

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    Linseed oil is sometimes added (typically 0.5-2%) to improve adhesion on difficult surfaces. Cement addition makes a harder wearing paint in white or grey. Open time is short, so this is added at point of use. Cement restricts the breathable aspects of the limewash and is inadvisable for preserved historic buildings. Dilute glues improve paint ...

  4. Rug making - Wikipedia

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    Braided rugs are made by using three or more strips of fabric, usually wool, folding the raw edges to the middle and braiding them together.For an oval rug the centre braid should be one inch longer than the width-length in feet. example 2' x 4' rug centre strip would be 2'2" long.

  5. Chalk - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] It is composed mostly of tiny fragments of the calcite shells or skeletons of plankton, such as foraminifera or coccolithophores. [1] These fragments mostly take the form of calcite plates ranging from 0.5 to 4 microns in size, though about 10% to 25% of a typical chalk is composed of fragments that are 10 to 100 microns in size.

  6. Navajo weaving - Wikipedia

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    Red tones in Navajo rugs of this period come either from Saxony or from a raveled cloth known in Spanish as bayeta, which was a woolen manufactured in England. With the arrival of the railroad in the early 1880s, another machine-produced yarn came into use in Navajo weaving: four-ply aniline dyed yarn known as Germantown because the yarn was ...

  7. Sarouk Persian carpets - Wikipedia

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    To meet the rising demand in the west for Persian rugs, the British-Switzerland company Ziegler & Co. opened its office in Tabriz in 1878 and in Sultanabad in 1883. The first World Oriental Carpet Exhibition in 1891 in Vienna and another one in London in 1892 created a rising demand for Persian rugs in the west.

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