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Visual & Material Culture Cataloguing
  • Introduction
  • Cataloguing History
  • METADATA FRAMEWORK
    • Metadata Elements
      • Identification Number
      • Number of Objects
      • Object Type
      • Creator
        • Relator Term List
      • Title/Brief Description
      • Inscription / Marks
      • Date of Creation
      • Place of Creation
      • Dimensions
      • Technique and Materials
        • Technique List
        • Material List
      • Colour
      • Edition
      • State
      • Language
      • Subjects
      • Wellcome Legacy Subject Classification
      • Provenance
      • Detailed Visual Description
      • Citation
      • Sources of Information
      • Exhibition Information
      • Related Material
      • Condition
      • Copyright
      • Location
      • Catalogued Date
    • Metadata Crosswalk
  • CATALOGUING AIDS
    • Library: MARC / Sierra
    • Archives: ISAD(G) /CALM
    • Format Examples
      • Drawing
      • Painting
      • Photograph
      • Print
      • 3D Object
      • Album / Group
    • Content Considerations
    • Identification
      • Identifying paintings
      • Identifying prints
      • Identifying photographs
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  1. METADATA FRAMEWORK
  2. Metadata Elements
  3. Technique and Materials

Material List

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To ensure consistency, these terms for material have been taken from the . Due to the breadth of material types within the collections, only the broadest terms have been added to this local list.

Material Terms

canvas

cardboard

ceramic

clay

cotton

glass

gouache

gum arabic

ink

lace

latex

linen

metal

oil paint

paper

papyrus

pencil

plastic

resin

silicon

silk

velum

watercolour

wax

wood

wool

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