Explanatory dictionary: Types of Plaster

The term PLASTER

came to us from Italy, and literally means grouting, from stucco - gypsum, lime, alabaster.

As narrated by the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, plaster — this is a hardened finishing layer, mortar, which is applied to the surfaces of structural elements and parts of buildings and structures.

The walls were covered with cracked plaster with colored blots of frescoes - they did not have clear boundaries, and they looked like huge spots of mold. // Victor Pelevin, "Caretaker. Book 1. Order of the yellow flag.

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Fur coat plaster

decorative plaster, performed by throwing a covering layer of a colored cement mortar mixture with stone grains onto unhardened soil to form a relief texture, imitating chipped stone // Terminological dictionary for construction on 12 languages

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Plaster Rustami

decorative plaster, deep grooves are made on the surface, imitating large block masonry seams // Terminological dictionary for construction on 12 languages

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Sgraffito plaster

decorative plaster, carried out by applying several layers of mortars of various colors and subsequent partial removal or scraping of one, or two overlying layers to create a relief pattern // Terminological dictionary for construction on 12 languages

For the cavalier Guidotti on Via Larga, he finished the facade of his house with sgraffito, as well as another beautiful facade of the house of Bartalomeo Panchataki, built on the square // D. Minister, Biographies of the most famous painters, sculptors and architects

A pupil of Baldassare was also the Roman Virgilio, which is in Borgo Nuovo hometown, on one of the facades, with the help of sgraffito, he depicted several several shackled prisoners and did many other beautiful things. // D. Minister, Biographies of the most famous painters, sculptors and architects

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Terrazite plaster

decorative plaster, made of plaster mortar mixtures, consisting of marble chips, mica, binders and colorants // Terminological dictionary for construction on 12 languages

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Venetian plaster

this is one of the types of top layer of walls, which is distinguished by its "fleshiness" and thick layer. Its traditional ingredients are exclusively natural ingredients - marble chips, slaked lime and clay. Of course, with the advent of technology, the onset of the era of replacing everything natural and in order to increase consumer properties, replaced by special compositions, containing acrylic or lime binders. but, visually, the difference between a real Venetian, consisting of natural materials and that, which is created using synthetic components, it is extremely difficult to determine.