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Iron-statue Moulding

Moulding statuary in iron. This branch of the art is necessarily more difficult than any other of the processes followed for the production of statuary in bronze, because the materials used for moulding with are less rigid, and demand more skill in their manipulation as a consequence. The core is built by the moulder, on which the sculptor carves his model in clay or wax, after which the moulder builds his cope around it in sections; the latter, when sufficiently hardened, are lifted away, the thickness removed, and the whole mould finished, dried, closed together, and cast like any other ordinary piece of loam-work. See STATUE-FOUNDING.