11.   Shape each piece into a disk and cover with a kitchen towel or plastic wrap to keep the dough from drying out.

12.   Shape each piece into a round loaf.

13.   The piece was shaped like a fat comma, one side smooth as a table top, the other side deeply pockmarked.

14.   Carbon filament was also difficult and expensive to manufacture, involving hammering and shaping individual pieces of carbon and baking them in a furnace.

15.   Other wax pieces are shaped like boats and displayed on scaffolding, or molded into small entryless houses filled with rice.