How To Use Papier-mache In A Sentence
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Clearly the megalosaurus in the opening passage of Bleak House is a flight of hyperbolic fancy (inspired, I would guess, by the papier-mâché dinosaurs constructed for the Crystal Palace Exhibition, a couple of years earlier).
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The bulbous eyes of a papier-mâché calf looked back at him, spellbound in eternal inanity.
DISPLACED PERSON
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In the second session, children were exposed to art works such as art from waste, clay modelling, making Papier-mache dolls and pot painting.
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Suttie intercuts this bittersweet tale with scenes from her own romantic history, sagely advising the audience to think twice before making a five-foot tall papier-mache penguin for your loved one.
Edinburgh fringe comedy roundup
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Once the armature was completed, the next step was to add the papier-mache.
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This simple papier-mache technique works on both colored and uncolored eggs - though we found that some blotching occurs on dyed eggs.
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The messiest of the activities on offer was the creation of piñatas using papier-mache and brightly coloured paint.
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Every year, the students in all grades of my elementary school do a papier-mache project.
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There are over 40 varieties made from clay, marble, granite, brass, panchaloka, aluminium, papier-mâché rosewood, sandalwood, crystal glass etc.
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Scrawled notes, torn valentines, diaristic scribbled words, fabric, papier-mâché and wallpaper appear.
Joan Snyder.
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The papier-mâché city, one might say, is a dialectical image: it conjoins grim desperation with possibility, an earthy materialism with idealism, the old and discarded with the utterly new.
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Traditionally made of papier-mache by mascherari, the masks are used during Carne celebrations that envelop Venice for two weeks before Ash Wednesday.
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He is sitting on a homemade island constructed from chicken wire and papier-mâché, painted in crude splodges of brown and green.
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Top University of Arizona administrators and astronomers celebrated this legislative end run by throwing a party, the centerpiece of which was a papier-mâché piñata in the shape of a Mount Graham red squirrel.
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She makes wonderful things out of papier-mache, and chicken netting and copper wire.
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The clamour of Harlequin, who was covered with glass, papier-machee, lamps and oil, the screams of the ladies, the universal buz of tongues, and the struggle between the frighted crowd which was enclosed to get out, and the curious crowd from the other apartments to get in, occasioned a disturbance and tumult equally noisy and confused.
Cecilia
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Environmentally-friendly ones include cardboard, chipboard, papier-mâché and wicker coffins.
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Once the armatures were complete, we used papier-mache to cover and more permanently attach all the architectural forms to the dome.
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Still, they will not be blocking intersections or chanting beneath cumbrous papier-mache puppets.
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Clearly the megalosaurus in the opening passage of Bleak House is a flight of hyperbolic fancy (inspired, I would guess, by the papier-mâché dinosaurs constructed for the Crystal Palace Exhibition, a couple of years earlier).
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The firm bought and sold fancy goods, sheet iron, iron and brass nails, slate boards and other slate products, lampblack and resin, and children's toys made of wood and papier-mache.
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Jennens & Bettridge of Birmingham took out a patent in 1825 for ornamenting papier-mache with pearl shell.
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The papier-mâché Marie Laveau looked very real indeed now that she was painted and costumed.
CIRCLE OF THREE: BOOK 14: THE CHALLENGE BOX
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The sticky nature of gluten has been utilized as a paper and fabric glue, as in making papier-mâché and wallpaper paste.
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The old lacquer-work is difficult to get, and, when obtained, is high in price; but comparison between the old and the new shows the gulf that lies between the loving and skilful labour of the artist and the stupid and generally "scamped" achievement of him who merely "knocks off" candlesticks and tobacco-boxes by the score, to sell to the English visitor -- papier-maché being superseded by wood, and lacquer by paint.
A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
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She is about to make a papier-mache volcano, she says.
The Sun
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In her class, reading and writing seemed to be prohibited, but we were provided with mounds of clay, papier-mâché, puzzles, and all kinds of noneducational items.
Blue Rage, Black Redemption
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There was no mistaking it, it was a "lattice" -- a real one, with old bluish panes set in sturdy black moldings, not the stage variety made of plate glass and papier-mache that he had seen in the sham cottage of aesthetic suburbs at home.
The Refugees
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This simple papier-mache technique works on both colored and uncolored eggs - though we found that some blotching occurs on dyed eggs.
