Q: We recently purchased a 1926 colonial house with mostly horsehair plaster walls. This is my first experience with plaster walls, and I’m afraid they are going to crumble when I hang artwork ...

One scroll through Pinterest or flip through an interiors magazine these days will prove to you that plaster of Paris surfaces are back in a big way. Once a finish reserved for opulent and ...

Plaster of Paris is created by heating gypsum crystals, a soft mineral made of calcium sulphate dihydrate, to turn them into a dry powder. 13 October 2009 • 7:00am The Sistine Chapel ceiling by ...

Otherwise, it’s probably plaster. Knock on the wall. Knock lightly on your wall. If it sounds and feels hollow, you’re knocking on drywall. If it doesn’t really make much of a sound, ...

Plaster of paris goes the fine art of clay. Aug 25, 2013, 07:03 IST. Share. AA ... This fact comes to mind when one sees images of idols made of plaster of paris stacked along the banks of the ...

Dezeen Showroom: Italian ceramics company Atlas Concorde has created the 3D Wall Plaster collection of surfaces informed by ancient architectural techniques. The collection includes five surfaces ...

It’s a superb wall material that is slowly becoming history. Many ancient buildings have plaster walls, but today fewer than one in every 10,000 new houses has plaster.

Removing bits of plaster ahead of an extensive repair project on Yorkshire, England's Calverley Old Hall led to uncovering a "time machine" to wall paintings created in the 1500s.