Search results for "Embroidery" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • are made of silk, either by appliqué or with embroidery. ... * Embroidery (Tib.) tshim-tang * Gold Background—an auspicious treatment ...
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  • The Elizabethan era also saw a great flowering of domestic embroidery for both clothing and furnishings. Predominant styles include canvas work ...
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  • in the use of the brush. In sewing and embroidery, she displayed exquisite ... ====Embroidery==== [[Image:Shin stamp2.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Stamp ...
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  • is woven into the cloth, but is in fact an embroidery. The 70 scenes ... Establishing a History of Anglo-Saxon Embroidery," in Netherton Owen ...
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  • after weaving, with various sorts of embroidery, pearls and precious stones ... lot of embellishments such as mirrors or embroidery, and may be worn on special ...
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  • to help her family. Her exquisite lace and embroidery helped to support her home, while her nights were devoted to prayer and penance in a little ...
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  • tiny shoes decorated with beautiful embroidery. Since they were unable ... tiny shoes decorated with beautiful embroidery. Since they were unable ...
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  • Boucher, was a painter specializing in embroidery designs. These humble beginnings ... to François Lemoyne as a designer of embroidery patterns for three months ...
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  • including folk painting; jewelry making; embroidery, tie-dyeing and other decorative ... ===Embroidery=== [[Image:Patiala Phulkari.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Embroidered ...
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  • ==Embroidery carpets== Unlike woven carpets, embroidery carpets are not made on a loom. Their ...
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  • textile that is so densely encrusted with embroidery that its corners stand away stiffly. Her lavishly illuminated Book of Hours is open before her, ...
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  • A pair of scissors is a hand-operated cutting instrument consisting of a pair of metal blades connected at a pivot, such that the blades meet ...
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  • | Embroidery || Chinese embroidery || Neolithic |- | rowspan="4" | Chinese painting || Ming Dynasty painting || Ming Dynasty ...
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  • featuring brilliant colors and rich embroidery, often in the design of a dragon. Persons of high rank or virtue wear red, lower ranking officials ...
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  • flowing robes, richly decorated, mostly through embroidery. Fulani women also traditionally use Henna around the mouth, resulting in a blackening around ...
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  • for silk production, especially Suzhou Silk Hand Embroidery Art. Other outstanding crafts include Suzhou embroidery, fans, national musical instruments ...
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  • The Bayeux tapestry is an embroidery done on "eight bolts of natural colored linen with only two different stitches of wool; in tapestry ...
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  • and goldware, leather goods, and embroidery. Chief exports are the agricultural products of the surrounding region, mainly wheat and cotton, ...
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  • painting, gold and silver leaf imprints or embroidery may be used to enhance the design of an obi or kimono. Japanese embroidery employs mainly satin ...
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  • like jewelry, carpets, costumes, antiques and embroidery. Up the hill to the castle gate, there are many shops selling a huge and fresh collection ...
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  • Collagen is the main protein of connective tissue in animals and the most abundant protein in mammals, making up about 25 percent of the total ...
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  • social graces, along with reading, writing and embroidery skills. However, the young Vigee was reprimanded on more than one occasion for drawing on ...
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  • jewelry. Another use for seed beads is an embroidery technique where seed beads are sewn onto fabric backings to create broad collar neck pieces and ...
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  • pashmina shawls of Kashmir with their intricate embroidery are very famous. The Angora breed produces long, curling, lustrous locks of mohair ...
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  • Panel at chin is dyed gut applique with red wool embroidery. Fur and dyed gut applique trim the cuffs and hem. Human hair decorates the seams. Worn by ...
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  • Hunan's products include Xiang embroidery, one of China's four famous embroideries. With 200 years of history behind them, the chrysanthemum ...
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  • The Vatican Library (Latin: Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana) is the library of the Holy See, currently located in Vatican City. It is one of ...
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  • Russian-Jewish immigrants Alex Festinger (an embroidery manufacturer) and Sara Solomon Festinger. He attended Boys' High School and received a Bachelor ...
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  • found in a number of crafts associated with embroidery, silk-weaving, and so forth. Apprentices were young (usually about fourteen to twenty-one years ...
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  • industry. Traditional Uzbek crafts such as gold embroidery, ceramics, and engraving have been revived. Uzbekistan's per capita GDP was estimated ...
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  • A bed is a piece of furniture (or a location) primarily used as a place to sleep, and often used for relaxation. To make a bed more comfortable ...
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  • family contributed a dowry of linen and embroidery, and rural weddings involved ... carving, ceramics, woven wool rugs, and embroidery of costumes, household ...
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  • detail, she decorated her tutus with beadwork, embroidery, crochet, and appliqué. Russia gave the world not only great directors, choreographers ...
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  • Suzhou is famous for its silk, embroidery art, jasmine tea, stone bridges, pagodas, and its classical gardens. Nearby Yixing is famous for its ...
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  • sequins, crystals, coins, beaded fringe, and embroidery. The belt may be a separate piece, or sewn into a skirt. The bedlah has changed over ...
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  • marriage and practices cooking, sewing, embroidery, and textile making. ... in bright tones decorated with elaborate embroidery around the collar. Some ...
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  • red with white, silver, or gold embroidery. Two to three years into her apprenticeship, the red collar will be entirely embroidered in white ...
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  • This cultural fusion is expressed in arts such as embroidery and lace making. The music, which consists of lilting polkas, bouncy galopas, and ...
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  • time, in occupations such as spinning, dying, and embroidery. In comparison, female property rights and wage labor were relatively uncommon in Europe ...
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  • *Gold can be made into thread and used in embroidery. *Gold is used in restorative dentistry, especially in tooth restorations such as crowns ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{ethnic group| |group=Hopi |image=[[Image:HopiWomensDance.1879 ...
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  • resort, noted for its Madeira Wine, flowers, and embroidery artisans, as well as its New Year's Eve celebrations that feature, purportedly, the ...
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  • and aunt who use her unkindly and make her do embroidery and needlework for the whole family late into the night. In spite of her misfortunes, however ...
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  • quot; and an outer robe "adorned with embroidery into which precious stones were stone."O'Brien, 2005, 36. Marriage and coronation were ...
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  • The Kalash or Kalasha, are an ethnic group found in the Hindu Kush mountain range in the Chitral district of the North-West Frontier Province ...
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  • ink drawings, posters, mosaics, and embroidery. Juche ideology asserts Korea's cultural distinctiveness and creativity as well as the productive ...
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  • but tend to be highly refined. Weaving and embroidery vary from one region to another. The used fabrics are adapted to needs and circumstances, and ...
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  • woven songket textiles, wood carving, embroidery, pottery, and metallurgy. ===Cuisine=== List of Minangkabau cuisine [[Image:Lamb rendang.jpg ...
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  • Prussia Latin: Borussia, Prutenia; Old Prussian: Prūsa) was, most recently, a historic state originating in Brandenburg, an area that for centuries ...
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  • or silk, or made by appliqué (go-tang) or with embroidery (tshim-tang). Painted thangkas are done on treated cotton canvas or silk with water soluble ...
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