fibrous plaster

Georgian and Adam-style surrounds are also available in fibrous plaster.

As part of this refurbishment, the curving interior, which had originally been constructed in fibrous plaster, was replaced with concrete.

The auditorium was rather simple in fibrous plaster, striated lines and straight ceiling coves accentuated the long dimension of the room.

Niches, such as you see in grander houses, are available in fibrous plaster, ready moulded in one piece.

More elaborate, moulded fibrous plaster arches have to be bought from specialist suppliers: some do mail order, others may have showrooms in larger cities.

This included the complete replacement of the fibrous plaster interior with concrete, carried out again by Brock Carmichael, working with the acoustic consultant firm Lawrence Kirkegaard Associates.

If you're using wooden or fibrous plaster mouldings without pilaster for the arch, it tends to look better with corbels fitted to its 'springing points'(where the arch starts on the side walls).

The house, made of fibrous plaster, with pumice stone bead insulation and several layers of gunite, an especially strong kind of concrete, was snugly insulated and neither too hot nor too cold.

Expanded metal arch kits, once they have been plastered over, present a smooth wall face, and can be wallpapered around fairly easily, but they don't quite have the character of the moulded fibrous plaster.

The materiality that uses in the house were unadorned, they are fibrous plaster ceiling left in natural, unpainted stated, flat steel decking roof, timber walls, and reinforced concrete floor slab under concrete block.

If you've got rid of a doorway, or turned two rooms into one, round it off with an arch kit which you plaster over; add stylish fibrous plaster arch mouldings and corbels; or frame it in wood.

Fibrous plaster is given by plasterers the suggestive name "stick and rag", and this is a rough description of the material, for it is a fibrous composed of plaster laid upon a backing of canvas stretched on wood.

The modern use of this material may be said to have started then, but the use of fibrous plaster was known and practiced by the Egyptians long before the Christian era; for ancient coffins and mummies still preserved prove that linen stiffened with plaster was used for decorating coffins and making masks.