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  • Shining examples for Walls: Polished Plaster, Venetian Plaster, Stucco
    05/09/2017

    Venetian stucco plaster applying techniques

    Stucco italiano has published video tutorials cover the basics of first-class stucco interior finishes. If you are an experienced stucco contractor and do not want to receive call-backs related to problems, this video tutorials describe stucco applying techniques from mixing materials to special surface finishes. Solutions to common plastering problems such as cracking and dryout.

  • Getting Started in Venetian Plaster: from painter to plasterer
    23/12/2015

    Getting Started in Venetian Plaster: from painter to plasterer

    Like faux painting, Venetian plastering offers the artist considerable creative scope. A skilled Venetian plasterer can produce anything from a cold, glossy, marble-like surface to a warm, antiquelooking distressed effects. Yet a Venetian plaster wall is more durable than any painted surface, and a skilled plasterer’s creativity can be admired for many years to come.

    What is Venetian plaster?

  • lime binders and lime based paints, sealants and coatings
    10/03/2016

    Modern and greener buildings built with lime binders and lime based paints, sealants and coatings

    Lime has been the main binder used in construction during the last ten thousand years.
    It’s been used since at least 7500 BC in Jordan and can also be found in the walls of early Egyptian tombs. Builders in the Roman Empire used it in many structures, although it wasn’t until the Renaissance that marble dust was first added to lime plaster, allowing for the hard, smooth finish forever associated with Venetian palazzos: Venetian Marmorino.

  • Marmorino Pastellone for floors
    22/12/2015

    Venetian Stucco: Marmorino Pastellone for floors

    StuccoItaliano is a premium Marmorino Venetian stucco Plaster supplier and manufacturer for interiors, exteriors and floors. Here you find a selection of our Venetian polished stucco plaster and high-end decorative products, available in countless colours and effects. Buy Venetian polished stucco plaster, Marmorino, Travertino, stucco paints and tools.

  • 01/07/2013

    How to remove stains of lime from a wooden floor?

    Some woods are sensitive to the alkaline of the lime among them the oak.