About Stucco Design
The oldest plaster was found in Mesopotamia arround 9000 B.C. they used line mixed with unmeated crushed limestone to make plaster walls were decorated with red, ginger painted patterns and designs.
The Greeks took recipes from de Egyptian and they improved it. Soon after modelled stucco was employed throughout the Roman Empire. The Romans used mixtures of lime sand to build up preparatory layers over which finer applications of gypsum, lime, sand and marble dust were made. Pozzolanic materials were sometimes added to produce a more rapid set.
After the fall of the Roman Empire the addition of marble dust to plaster was not used until the Renaissance period, a smooth polished finished was used extensively throughout Northern Italy. Now called Venetian plaster.
What is a real marble plaster?
You will find on the market a lot of products called stucco
(in the USA even simple plaster is called stucco). This is because the product name is not protected,
even in Italy (the language this word comes from) everybody can use the name for anything.
We suggest that first it must be distinguished what this name stucco means. To date, many
products are marked under the name stucco sometimes accompained by terms like: aatico, lustro, veneciano
,
even names like Marmorello, mamorist, etc., but all of these products are understood as imitations (false finishes),
that is essentially reproduce the optical aspects of marble, but most of them are simply acrillic based plasters.
Some of them are mixed with lime and even some small amount of marble powder, and the label them as mineral based
.
The only thing witch distinguises them is the technique of the application, but they still remain imitations of real marble.
Some of the imitation products are mixed with the lime, not for its naturan qualities recognized in buildings,
but more as a filler or binder. The lime, of course, losses its natural properties through manipullation even when
these products can sometimes contain marble powder. This clearly means component, does not became a mineral itself
but can be accompanied by the indication with mineral base
disagreeable odur of the synthetic material in some
product is frequently marked by the addition of perfume which has a little to do with nature.
It is obvious the decoration products and works techniques of this type have nothing to do with the application of real marble called marmorino. They are only optical imitations (fake finishes) that have none essential properties of a truly natural product, marmorino.
As for the same name, marmorino, it corresponds in Italy to a real definition PF. A product with exact application specifications. In order to be able to use this term, the product must contain a 40% marble and no synthetic additives. This is why few competitors use this trade name in Italy.
A glossy surface, whether marble or even glass is called lustro
in Italian (litteraly means brilliano lusture
).
This annex name leads to a complementary property of the product. This also means in Italian that the glossy effect is obtain
by mechanically application or working of the product itself and not by additive such as wax, varnish, etc, which are applied
subsequently and must be then polished (according to a datasheet Of various manufactures).
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