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Fabrication

Side view of a trinket box showing the clear diamond shaped knob on the lid.
Side view of a sample of building material showing the white pipe and black top section.

Process:   A catch-all term for a variety of processes, including bonding, carving, cutting, sticking, turning and welding. Go to the different materials to see how they are fabricated

Introduced:   A traditional means of making

Plastics:   cellulose acetate; cellulose nitrate; glass-reinforced plastic; phenol formaldehyde as liquid resin; polymethyl methacrylate; polystyrene

Marks:   None

Tooling cost:   Low

Production volume:   Slow

Uses:   Varied; see materials concerned

Projects

Open residency call A curator's guide to plastics
What are plastics? Identifying plastics Plastics timeline Plastics materials Plastics manufacturing processes
Blow moulding Casting Compression moulding Extrusion Fabrication Foaming Injection moulding Rotational moulding Thermoforming
Care of plastics Methodology and contributors
Identifying plastics toolkit Confronting plastics preservation A curator's guide to synthetic garments Synthetica w-Rap Plastic Vanitas Residencies Symbiosis Photographic challenge 10 Most Wanted Plastics SSN MoDiPDiP Effective collections

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