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A studio for building material prompts. Each word in the address is a material; each ladder is a word in the sentence.

Materials by class

Plant fibres felted into a sheet; how long the fibres are and how the sheet is pressed decide its tooth, its translucency and how it takes ink.

Yarns interlaced or looped; the weave or knit, not only the fibre, sets how a cloth drapes, catches light and wears.

Minerals bound by heat, pressure or cement; the grain size and what fills the gaps between grains decide its pattern and polish.

Cellulose fibres laid down in yearly rings; cutting across, along or around the rings shows end grain, straight grain or figure.

Crystals of metal, worked by hammer, roller or brush; the surface keeps every tool's direction, and air adds its own colour as patina.

A cooled liquid with no crystal order; it bends light at every surface, so texture in glass is mostly what it does to what lies behind it.

Clay fired until its grains fuse; a glaze is glass melted on top, and the crackle is the glaze and body shrinking by different amounts.

Coloured particles carried in a binder or water; how the particles settle as the carrier leaves makes washes, blooms and granulation.

Long chain molecules, moulded or cast; the mould's surface is copied exactly, so studs, grain and gloss are all made on purpose.

Material a living thing made: cells and fibres arranged for a job, which is why bark, crust and honeycomb pattern themselves.

Patterns no one made: water, salt, frost and oxidation arranging themselves as they move, dry or grow, each by a rule a student can name.