the plaster

In Morocco, the plaster is worked in sculpture or is engraved to compose most of the Moroccan decorations, recovering the high part of the mural zelliges and very often the ceilings Having a time of relatively long drying, it makes it possible to leave the craftsman to carve and to work it; upon request, it could be corrected after simple damping.

The plaster can be carved vertically or in parallel compared to the plan of the wall. It is very often raised of a clearer colour or a gilding.

The plaster is spread out in thick layers of a few centimetres over surface to decorate. This thickness varies according to the quality of desired work, generally 3 to 4 centimetres.

The ghabbar trace of the reasons to the rule or the compass but generally using gauges or of commonplaces to the stencil key set.

The maallem ghabbar is a respectful draughtsman of the regulating layouts. It must as be at ease in meticulous details of illumination or penmanship as in architectural large surfaces, in frontages particularly.

Penmanship takes a considerable importance in the sculpture of the plaster where it takes all its blooming.

The plaster is very snuffed for equipped the columns; it is used to carve capitals with curved reason or calligraphic and floral interlacings of arabesque.

Another style of the manifestation of volume in Islamic art, the mouquarnas kinds of stalactites which go down from the ceilings, comparable has thimbles turned over furnishing the under-surface with the arcs or entirely papering the vaults.