The Mold or Cast Terminology Negative (cast): the malleable mass upon which a form can be imprinted.
Mold, cast, form, or matrix: the negative imprint of the form of a solid body, produced mainly for the manufacture of faithful likenesses of it.
Positive (mold): the most common reference to the faithful likeness of a solid body which has been made by injecting soft matter (which then solidifies) into the cavity of another negative likeness.
A structure intended for casting a fluid material which, when set, will take its shape and then be removed.
Pattern or model: that which serves as an example for reproduction, for making copies of any person or object, used as a specimen to create something new (posed as a model to painters.
Synonyms of cast are printing, impression and negative or positive (as a clarification).
Object and Molding Materials Any three dimensional object can be reproduced through molding.
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For artists the cast is the means of producing a work of art, and for conservators it is the means of restoring a work of art, while for decorators it is the means of producing threedimensional decorative elements, and, finally, for technicians and engineers it is used to produce parts, tools, and devices and for many other applications. Marble sculpture molding (fig. 1, 2).
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Extraction from ancient artwork (fig. 3-4) for reproduction of copies.
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