Sentences with phrase «while troweling»

Khoshnevis, 54, a prolific inventor who emigrated from Iran in 1974 and holds patents in fields ranging from optics to robotics, decided there had to be a better way while troweling plaster cracks in his living room following the 1994 Northridge, California, earthquake.

Not exact matches

Khoshnevis points out that the exterior trowel could be followed by a rolling die that prints a brick, shingle, or clapboard pattern in the wet concrete, while the interior could be painted using ink - jet technology in any color, or even in wallpaper patterns.

While Dash literally worries her diminutive textile sculptures to pieces, the majority of these works (all Untitled, 2016)-- composed primarily of stacked or beveled arrangements of jute - stretched canvases, quantities of gessoed or hand - painted fabric, and lengths of twine embedded in or hanging from troweled - on adobe grounds — feature tactile surfaces manipulated by the sure hand of composure.

While I was at it, I also added a bit more tonal value to the trowel handle to define the shape better.