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2. Papier-mâché offering shops in Hong Kong - Wikipedia

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   Chinese funerals (mainly Taoist funerals) are the occasions that require paper offerings most. Paper horses and paper goats are a must in the funeral ceremony. [10] Those offerings, used for liberating souls from purgatory and fulfilling the needs of the souls in the underworld, [11] consist paper currency, clothes, food, houses and transport ...

3. Papier-mâché - Wikipedia

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   Mardi Gras papier-mâché masks, Haiti. Papier-mâché (UK: / ˌ p æ p i eɪ ˈ m æ ʃ eɪ / PAP-ee-ay MASH-ay, US: / ˌ p eɪ p ər m ə ˈ ʃ eɪ / PAY-pər mə-SHAY, French: [papje mɑʃe] - the French term "mâché" here means "crushed and ground" [1]) is a versatile craft technique with roots in ancient China, in which waste paper is shredded and mixed with water and a binder to produce ...

4. Cartonería - Wikipedia

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   [1] [3] The paper and cardboard used is mostly waste paper, such as old newspapers and boxes, with decorative elements, such as crepe paper being new. [2] [5] Most shapes are created with molds, then painted with acrylics. [5] Most of the production since colonial times has followed the annual calendar of religious and civic events.

5. Kashmir papier-mâché - Wikipedia

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   The skilled artisans involved with this painstaking process are called Paper Mache makers. The materials involved with this process are discarded paper, cloth, straw of rice plant, which are mixed and made into a pulp. [7] The paper, after immersing in water for 4–5 weeks, is taken out and made into a pulp and dried.

6. Joss paper - Wikipedia

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   The Joss paper is folded in half, or bought pre-folded into the shape of gold ingots before being burned in an earthenware pot or a specially built chimney. Joss paper burning is usually the last performed act in Chinese deity or ancestor worship ceremonies. The papers may also be folded and stacked into elaborate pagodas or lotuses.

7. Burial vault (enclosure) - Wikipedia

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   A burial vault (also known as a burial liner, grave vault, and grave liner) is a container, formerly made of wood or brick but more often today made of metal or concrete, that encloses a coffin to help prevent a grave from sinking. Wooden coffins (or caskets) decompose, and often the weight of earth on top of the coffin, or the passage of heavy ...