Another technique involves trowelling on several layers of translucent renders and randomly cutting back to a previous layer to achieve colour differential similar to jasper.
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Tiles in the bathroom have to be applied a strip at a time and Tsui went through four plasterers before finding two artists willing and able to complete the arduous hand trowelling.
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It is faster to use than a trowel, and produces a much cleaner surface than an excavator bucket or shovel-scrape, and consequently on many open-area excavations the once-common line of kneeling archaeologists trowelling backwards has been replaced with a line of stooping archaeologists with hoes.