lost-wax process

It was cast from pure copper using the lost-wax process.

Etched in relief, as if by some lost-wax process.

He did so to revive the lost-wax process for bronze casting, which had been used during the Renaissance.

The stands were designed to hold vases, and they were cast through the lost-wax process.

Eliscu decided to make the trophy by using a metal-casting method known as the lost-wax process.

Nude female-shaped handles on bronze mirrors were cast by the lost-wax process.

Many of these copper objects were made using the lost-wax process, the earliest known use of this complex technique.

The third design, Oak, was made by the same lost-wax process used for the gold decorations, a departure for the crystal company.

The foundry produces only one-off, untuned bells using the lost-wax process.

Other techniques also include forging, in which the silver is stretched over an anvil, or the lost-wax process, to make the smaller and stronger pieces.

(Bangles made by the lost-wax process are characteristic of northeast Thailand.)

The lost-wax process can be used with any material that can burn, melt, or evaporate to leave a mould cavity.

The sculpture is soldered together from eight segments, separately cast through the lost-wax process; the joins have been filed and finished to be virtually invisible.

With that first bronze piece, "Ceridwen, Out of Fossils," Graves learned what is called the lost-wax process.

Kulintang gongs are made using the cire perdue method, a lost-wax process used for casting the individual gongs.

The stone has a linear texture carved into it and the bronze tendrils are done by the lost-wax process and bonded to the stone.

Bronze moulds for elaborate axes of the late Bronze Age in Britain could only have been used in the lost-wax process.

The hilts and pommels were sculpted and cast through the lost-wax process; inscriptions were added to the blades via electrical discharge machining.

In West Africa, the oldest bronzes made using the lost-wax process were from Igbo Ukwu, a city under Nri influence.

(The lost-wax process involves coating a plaster or clay model with wax and covering it with a perforated mold of plaster or clay.

Instead of using the established techniques of casting medals in sand or using the lost-wax process, he perfected a method for stamping medals in high relief.

His interest in beekeeping later led Hillary to commission Michael Ayrton to cast a golden sculpture in the shape of honeycomb in imitation of Daedalus's lost-wax process.

A major characteristic of Mr. Ispanky's bronze pieces, cast by the lost-wax process, is the final phase of the process, which involves plaster molds and often a scaling-down in size.

I wrote an article on him for a local newspaper, which was sadly cut for publication, and bought some of his brass figurines, that he crafted and had cast via the lost-wax process.

These castings-on involved the whole lost-wax process, the missing parts being first modelled in position in wax, the whole enveloped in clay and metal run in to replace the wax.