piece-mold

Examples of piece-mold in the following topics:

• Casting

  • 'Waste molds' are single-use molds, often used to cast materials such as plastic resin or concrete.
  • 'Piece molds' are molds that are made of small pieces of flexible material, such as latex or rubber, and can be used for multiple casts.
  • Lost-wax casting was widespread in Europe until the 18th century at which point the piece-mold process came to dominate.
  • Most molds are made of at least two pieces, and a 'shim' is placed between the parts so that the mold can be put back together accurately.
  • The wax now looks like the finished piece, and is coated in a ceramic shell and allowed to dry.

• Bronze Sculpture in the Greek Early Classical Period

  • Once completed , a mold would be made of the clay core and an additional wax mold would also be created.
  • The wax mold would then be placed between the clay core and the clay mold, creating a pocket, and the wax would be melted out of the mold, after which the gap would be filled with bronze.
  • Once cooled, the exterior clay mold and interior clay core would be carefully removed and the bronze statue would be finished.
  • Multiple pieces would be welded together, imperfections smoothed, and any additional elements, such as inlaid eyes and eyelashes, would be added.
  • Because the clay mold must be broken when removing the figure, the lost wax method can be used only for making one-of-a-kind sculptures.

• Fossil Formation

  • Fossils can form under ideal conditions by preservation, permineralization, molding (casting), replacement, or compression.
  • As the years go by, the bones are scattered and fragmented into small pieces, eventually turning into dust and returning their nutrients to the soil.
  • This depression is called a mold.
  • Many mollusks (bivalves, snails, and squid) are commonly found as molds and casts because their shells dissolve easily .
  • The depression in the image is an external mold of a bivalve from the Logan Formation, Lower Carboniferous, Ohio

• Moche

  • Moche ceramics vary widely in shape and theme and are not generally uniform, although the use of mold technology enabled for mass production.
  • The coloration of Moche pottery is often simple and follows the Peruvian tradition, as noted, with yellowish cream and rich red used almost exclusively on elite pieces and with white and black used in only a few pieces.
  • This piece is an example of the didactic role of ceramics in Moche culture.

• Glass

  • As a studio craft, glass as a medium tends to be used to make decorative rather than solely functional pieces.
  • Generally the artist makes a mold out of refractory, sand, or plaster and silica which can be filled with either clear glass or colored or patterned glass, depending on the techniques and effects desired.
  • Usually the glass is only heated enough to impress a shape or a texture onto the piece, or to stick several pieces of glass together without a glue.
  • 'Blown glass' refers only to individually hand-made items but can include the use of molds for shaping, ribbing, and spiking to produce decorative bubbles.
  • Glass blown articles must be made of compatible glass or the stress in the piece will cause a failure.

• The Mass Media

  • Framing is when a story or piece of news is portrayed in a particular way and is meant to sway the consumers attitude one way or the other.
  • Since the 1950s, television has been the main medium for molding public opinion, though the internet is becoming increasingly important in this realm.

• Ceramcis of the Veracruz

  • Since then, the recovery of thousands of figurines and pottery pieces from sites such as Remojadas and Nopiloa (some initially found by looters), has expanded our understanding and filled many museum shelves.
  • Figurines from Nopiloa are usually less ornate, without appliqués, and are often molded.
  • In contrast to Smiling Figures from Remojadas, the mold-made ceramic figure from Nopiloa (below) depicts a bearded, mustachioed male wearing a ballgame yoke around his waist to protect him from the hard, solid rubber ball used in play.
  • The figure contains both hand-modeled and mold-made elements.

• Importance of Fungi in Human Life

  • Molds of the genus Penicillium ripen many cheeses.
  • They originate in the natural environment such as the caves of Roquefort, France, where wheels of sheep milk cheese are stacked to capture the molds responsible for the blue veins and pungent taste of the cheese.
  • A small piece of this leavened dough was saved and used as a starter (source of the same yeast) for the next batch, much in the same way sourdough bread is made today.
  • Many advances in modern genetics were achieved by the use of the red bread mold Neurospora crassa.

• The Benin Bronzes

  • Two hundred of the pieces were taken to the British Museum in London, while the rest were purchased by other European museums.
  • While the collection is known as the Benin Bronzes, like most West African "bronzes," the pieces are mostly made of brass of variable composition.
  • There are also pieces made of wood, ceramic, ivory, and mixtures of bronze and brass, among other materials.
  • The metal pieces were made using lost-wax casting and are considered among the best sculptures made using this technique.
  • The molten metal is poured into the mold.

• Architecture of the Han Dynasty

  • Molded designs usually decorated the ends of roof tiles, as seen in artistic models of buildings and in surviving tile pieces.
  • Model towers could be fired as one piece in the kiln or assembled from several different ceramic pieces to create the whole.
  • Perhaps the most direct pieces of evidence to suggest that miniature ceramic tower models are faithful representations of real-life Han timber towers are the tile patterns.