Sures must have had tongue in cheek when she contrived Ghirlandina, a cast-paper relief of an old, crooked, leaning tower, wonderfully abraded and polychromed. |
The powder abraded from the two stones during the operation is carefully preserved for use in grinding. |
The painted surface is splotchy, as if damp or abraded, and the piece as a whole is very subdued. |
Heavy machines then pounded and abraded them to make the surfaces smooth and uniform. |
By the final moments, cometary dust will have abraded the camera's optics, degrading the quality of the images, and possibly ending transmission. |
Split skin grafting is another technique in which the white patch is covered by skin after it is abraded. |