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Horsehair is the long hair growing on the manes and tails of horses. It is used for various purposes, including upholstery , brushes , the bows of musical instruments, a hard-wearing fabric called haircloth , and for horsehair plaster , a wallcovering material formerly used in the construction industry and now found only in older buildings.
Horsehair crinoline, 1840s Haircloth is commonly understood as a stiff, unsupple fabric made from coarse fibre from camelids , bovines , horses , goats , rabbits , hares and reindeers . [ 1 ] However, a softer variation is valued in the textile and fashion industries for their rarity, aesthetics and comfort.
Lime plaster is a type of plaster composed of sand, water, and lime, usually non-hydraulic hydrated lime (also known as slaked lime, high calcium lime or air lime). Ancient lime plaster often contained horse hair for reinforcement and pozzolan additives to reduce the working time.
1779 – Native Hawaiians killed the English explorer Captain James Cook as he attempted to kidnap Kalaniʻōpuʻu, the ruling chief of the island of Hawaii. 1990 – The NASA space probe Voyager 1 took Pale Blue Dot (detail pictured) , a photograph of Earth from a record distance of 40.5 astronomical units (6.06 billion km; 3.76 billion mi).
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Plaster is a building material used for the protective or decorative coating of walls and ceilings and for moulding and casting decorative elements. [1] In English, "plaster" usually means a material used for the interiors of buildings, while "render" commonly refers to external applications. [2]
The skill of weaving of horse-hair was rare in China. [3] According to the Shuyuan zaji (椒园杂记) by Lu Rong (1436–1494), maweiqun was originally imported in the capital of the Ming dynasty from Joseon where people could buy them, but at that time, no one in the capital had the ability to weave them.
Articles relating to plasterwork, construction or ornamentation done with plaster, such as a layer of plaster on an interior or exterior wall structure, or plaster decorative moldings on ceilings or walls.