A distressing technique that roughs up the surface of paper or stickers. It adds character and texture to your layout. Use sandpaper, sanding blocks, or emery boards to achieve this effect.
A technique for distressing/aging and roughing up the surface and/or edges of paper, stickers, photos, etc. Sanding tools include: sandpaper, foam sanding blocks, and nail files.
Very pure, clear, large-grained sugar: • Adds "sparkle" when sprinkled on candies (gum/jelly goods), cookies, pies, turnovers. • In boiled syrups and boiled-type icings, it dissolves uniformly, with minimal foaming or discoloring.
The process of working directly on the intaglio plate with fine-grained sandpaper to alter or remove lines or create tonal areas similar to those produced by aquatint.
A fabric finishing process where fabrics are sanded with real sandpaper to make the surface soft without hair. Can be performed before or after dyeing. Sandblast – A laundry process where jeans before washing are literally shot with guns of sand in order to make the jeans look as if they have been worn. While originally done only by hand, this process has become automated. Chemicals are also now used in many laundries replacing sand.
A very important step in preparing a sled for a run, which can take as much as three hours. On a four-man bobsled, each member of the crew is responsible for sanding one of the runners.