Life Style / Painting / Ivory: Sheets of ivory about 1/16 in (1.5 mm) thick or less are considered the standard support for the miniaturist. Other substances that have been used include: ceramic platters, various cards, parchment, and at times such as stretched and treated chicken skin.
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Entertainment / Photography / Ivorytype: Obsolete printing process designed to give the impression of a painting on ivory. A hand colored print was impregnated with wax and squeegeed face down on hot glass. The paper base was then back by iv MORE
Science / Marine Biology / Omnivory: Being able to feed in more than one distinct way (e.g., an organism capable of carnivory and herbivory) MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Ivory Tower: A derogatory term for a place, situation, or philosophical outlook that ignores or overlooks practical, worldly affairs. A French literary critic named Sainte-Beuve coined the phrase, and the term has MORE
Lifestyle / Tea / Chashaku: scoop for tea, made out of bamboo, ivory or other material MORE
Lifestyle / Painting / Gesso: In the broad sense it is a mixture of a plaster or like substance and a glue. Its purpose was to present the painter with a smooth, hard, white ground on which to paint. Owing to its hard brittle natu MORE
Lifestyle / Painting / Granulation: An effect that can be achieved with wash work when using colours with heavy pigment particles. French ultramarine, ivory black, umbers, siennas and ochres will leave a granulated broken effect if the MORE