Word: wax
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Also on exhibition was a rug showing Indian ponies woven from the carefully sorted undyed wool of white sheep, black sheep and their intermediates. There were also portraits of Chief Sits-In-The-Fall (No. 1) and Chief Sits-In-The-Spring (No. 2) painted in a new experimental wax resin technique...
...Hidalgo hates parties, is intensely serious, neither drinks nor smokes, works ten hours a day, owns only one suit of clothes, and has traveled by ox cart, automobile and burro in every state in the Federation studying the Indians of his land. Professionally he is a humorist. His little wax figures, never more than six inches high, are shown in box frames of glittering tin that the artist makes himself. They have little or no social message...
...seven generations the Hidalgos have been encausticists. Several Catholic churches in Mexico own today wax figures molded by Luis Hidalgo's great-great-grandfather. Luis Hidalgo uses no molds, carves directly in blocks of beeswax without any preliminary studies, guards a secret process that enables the figures, once carved, to resist a heat of 110° Fahrenheit without melting. All that he will say about it is that it is a mixture of four acids...
...Indeed, to wax poetic", he continued: "'Tis (three score) years since Carroll's art, With topsy-turvy magic, Sent Alice wondering through a part Half-comic and half tragic...
...Pennsylvania health officials, and regard for public opinion last week led General Electric Co. to shut down its wire factory at York, Pa. At that factory, only one of its kind in the General Electric setup, insulated wire is proofed against water and fire by impregnation in a synthetic wax prepared from chlorine and naphthalene. People who work with such waxy compounds run the risk of getting their pores plugged, breaking out with pimples. To safeguard against that industrial hazard in its York factory, General Electric compelled every workman to take a shower bath before leaving the factory, supplied freshly...