Word: glue
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Varda used to work on gesso (a smooth-surfaced, white mixture of rabbit glue and whiting solution) and with mosaics. He turned to collage because gesso and mosaics are too bulky, too expensive to transport, the ingredients are too dear-and Varda can snip out a collage in less time than it takes him to dream up a mosaic. "While the vision is full upon me," he says, "I can finish a whole painting [collage...
...plastic glue, called Cycleweld, which may replace riveting and spot welding on light metals, notably aluminum. Developed by Goodyear and Chrysler, it bonds metal, wood or plastic sheets together, is stronger and cheaper than riveting or welding...
...advice and suggestions, publishers pay him $100 a day, more or less, plus expenses. A job on a metropolitan paper takes three or four weeks. He works usually in his shirt sleeves, usually on his hands & knees on the floor, in a clutter of newspapers, clippings, glue, shears, pencils. When Farrar gets paste on his hands, which is often, he wipes it on his shirt. ("My wife," says he, "gives me hell...
...plaster made of native gypsum and animal glue on which colors are applied...
...Concentrate heat in small areas even deep within the insides of larger objects-to bake, dry, glue, stitch, anneal, weld, rivet...