papier mache

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The skeleton depicted in the painting echoed the papier-mache version that hung above Kahlo's bed, according to Sotheby's.

From Barron's

The scene she depicts even imitates her real life: Kahlo actually kept a smaller, papier-mâché skeleton atop her own canopy bed in Mexico City as a reassuring symbol of death’s ubiquity.

From The Wall Street Journal

We began each session by dancing around a cardboard mushroom with a papier-mâché owl on top of it.

From The Wall Street Journal

“The glue doesn’t stick. I’ve been doing papier-mâché for weeks.”

From The Wall Street Journal

In 1927, the “Buffalo Times” gave us an eyeroll in print over an igloo-shaped restaurant with papier-mache icicles, a merry-go-round restaurant with revolving tables, a “bullpen” restaurant with a live bull and waiters dressed as matadors.

From Los Angeles Times