MACHE

A name given to articles manufactured of the pulp of paper, or of old paper ground up into a pulp, bleached, if nece ary, and moulded into various forms. This article has lately been used upon an exten sive scale for the manufacture of mouldings, rosettes, and other architectural ornaments; pilasters, capitals, and even figures as large as life, have also been made of\t. It is lighter, more durable, and le brittle and liable to damage than plaster, and admits of being coloured, gilt, oi otherwise ornamented. Another article sometimes goes under the same name which is more like pasteboard, consisting of sheets of paper pasted or glued and powerful!) pre ed together, so as to acquire, when dry, the hardne [s. 901]