Category:Plasticine: Difference between revisions

From The Brighton Toy and Model Index
Jump to navigationJump to search
(+picture)
No edit summary
Line 1: Line 1:
{{Box|Harbutts_Plasticine,_How_to_Model_(MM_1932-04).jpg|1932: "How to Model" series: "A Cow and Goat"|380}}
{{Box|Harbutts_Plasticine,_How_to_Model_(MM_1932-04).jpg|1932: "How to Model" series: "A Cow and Goat"|380}}
{{Box|Plasticine_(MM_1967-07).jpg|1967: |380}}
The modelling material '''Plasticene''' was invented by '''William Harbutt''' (1844-1921), and was manufactured in Bathampton, Bath, England.
The modelling material '''Plasticene''' was invented by '''William Harbutt''' (1844-1921), and was manufactured in Bathampton, Bath, England.


Revision as of 18:00, 16 February 2019

1932: "How to Model" series: "A Cow and Goat"

1932: "How to Model" series: "A Cow and Goat" [image info]

1967:

1967: [image info]

The modelling material Plasticene was invented by William Harbutt (1844-1921), and was manufactured in Bathampton, Bath, England.

Original purpose

Unlike its American-origin competitor Play-Doh (which started out being marketed as a "cleaning putty" used to remove coal-dust marks from wallpaper), Plasticene was very much developed from the outset as a clean, stable modelling material, primarily for art students to practice on. While clay was excellent for firing to make permanent sculptures, it was problematic as a teaching material due to its tendency to dry out: it might have to be prepared fresh in batches and carefully brought to the right consistency, students would come in for their weekly art lessons and start to make something, and after a few weeks, the surface properties for further working could already be deteriorating.

Harbutt was artistically trained and had moved to Bath to teach art: consequently the understood the usefulness of a material

Variants

  • A.R.P. Plasticene – for gas-proofing rooms against poison gas attacks (~1939)
  • Fibrous Plasticine – mostly for earplugs
  • The Plasticene Dartboard – (yes, really)

Pages in category ‘Plasticine’

This category contains only the following page.

P

Media in category ‘Plasticine’

The following 29 files are in this category, out of 29 total.

Retrieved from ‘https://www.brightontoymuseum.co.uk/w/index.php?title=Category:Plasticine&oldid=51798’