wheat pasting

Street art adhesion

Wheat pasting is a method of affixing paper to surfaces using a paste made from wheat flour and water.

The technique is favored by street artists and activists for posting flyers, posters, and murals on walls, fences, and other public surfaces because it's cheap, effective, and the adhesive is easy to make.

The band promoted their shows by wheat pasting posters around the neighborhood.

Also called wheatpasting or paste-up.

Related

walls · flyers · bucket · brush · guerrilla · starch · paper · slap · illegal · nighttime · late night · propaganda · activism · public space · murals · urban · plastering · adhesive

Opposites
method of street art application

wheat pastingspray painting

Applying finish via aerosol

aerosol art · graffiti · tagging · etching · scratching

permanence and removability

wheat pastingspray paint

Aerosolized coating in cans

etching · acid etching · carving · engraving · projection

authorization and legitimacy

wheat pastingbillboard advertising

Large-scale roadside marketing

gallery exhibition · commercial advertising

Family

wheat, paste, pasting, wheats, wheaten, pastes, pasted, pasty

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Rated G