There was also a considerable manufacture of shell lime.
2.
The decoration is done, ( shell lime ).
3.
With an impressive fa�ade of nine engraved arch openings, the hall was ornamented with gilded and white shell lime " chunam " plaster work.
4.
The veneer brick and addition of solid masonry were set in an artful Flemish bond pattern with glazed headers, queen course and oyster shell lime mortar with a grapevine joint.
5.
In the past, the manufacture of oyster-shell lime for mortar was an important economic activity, but the availability of mass-produced building materials has reduced demand to the point where its production is no longer profitable.
6.
Wolfram Eberhard ( 1968 : 292 ) describes the " sh�n " mussel as " a strange animal ", and mentions the " Rites of Zhou " s " zh?ngsh�n " ( ) " manager of " sh�n " ", who was a special government official in charge of acquiring them for royal sacrifices and funerals . " It is not clear why these mussels were placed into the tombs, " he admits, possibly either as a sacrifice to the earth god ( compare " sh�n " below ) or " the shell lime was used simply for a purifying and protective effect ."
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