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Paint Remover
A compound that softens old varnish and permits scraping off the loosened material.
| | Painters Tape
A low-tack adhesive (also referred to as "blue masking tape") used for masking surfaces. Removes safely from delicate surfaces (like wallpaper and drywall) and leaves no residue.
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Parquetry
Furniture inlaid with a geometrical cube design in the manner of a parquet floor.
| | Paterna
A dish like ornament often worked in bas-relief on a frieze.
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Patina
A surface texture produced by age, wear or rubbing.
| | Pecan
A type of hickory native to the south central U.S. It has a strong grain pattern resembling walnut.
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Pedestal
A table on a round center support.
| | Pediment
The space or structure above a cornice.
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Peelable
A wallpaper in which the top layer strips away without streaming or scraping, leaving a thin residue of paper or paste
| | Peeling
Detachment of a dried paint film in relatively large pieces, usually caused by moisture or grease under the painted surface.
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Pembroke
A long square-sided table with oval or square ends, the leaves at the side of which drop almost to the floor. Named for Lady Pembroke.
| | Petit
Needlework usually on cotton, silk or linen, using a very fine stitch.
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Philadelphia
Distinct school of mid-18th century
| | Pie
A table so named because the edge is finished off in a series of serpentines or curves, as cooks crimp the edges of a pie.
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Piece. for
A piece of fabric is the packaging quantity in which the fabric is put-up by the weaver or printer.
| | Pied
French for “deer’s foot”; slight curvature applied to a leg, ending in a cloven foot.
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Pigments
Paint ingredients mainly used for color and hiding.
| | Pilaster
Flat column superimposed on any plain surface to serve as a support for a cornice or a pediment.
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Pine
Soft wood, white or pale yellow. No figure. Often used as solid wood.
| | Plinth
Square or octagonal base of a chest or other column, solid to the floor.
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Plisse
ISSE –Cotton fabric, chemically treated to give a crinkled surface.
| | Plumb Line
A chalk line reel used to paint stripes on walls or floors accurately.
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Polyurethane
Wide range of coatings, ranging from hard glossy enamels to soft flexible coatings. It has good to very good adhesion, hardness, flexibility and resistance.
| | Practical Coverage
The flat area that a gallon of paint will naturally tend to cover. Also known as the spread rate.
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Pre
A wallcovering from which the selvage edges have been trimmed before packaging so it is ready for installation. All Ralph Lauren wallpapers are pre-trimmed.
| | Prep
A liquid wall preparation used to prepare a wall to accept wallpaper paste.
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Prima
(Mexico and Nicaragua) Sometimes called white mahogany; whitish to straw yellow, with glossy effect, lined with pale brown.
| | Primary Colors
Colors that cannot be produced by mixing any two other colors. They are red, yellow and blue.
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Primer
The first coat or under coat that helps bind the top coat to the substrate (surface to be painted).
| | Prince
Decorative motive of three ostrich feathers, badge of the heir apparent of England; favored by Hepplewhite as the filler-design of chair backs.
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Print
General term for fabric (usually cotton) that has been decorated by a motif, design or pattern applied by means of dyes after is has been constructed. The printing is usually done by engraved rollers or silk screens.
| | Putty
Dough-like mixture of pigment and oil used to set glass in window frames and to fill nail holes and cracks.
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