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Winter Is Perfect For Children’s Crafts
Cold weather can be tough on you and your small child when they can’t get outside and play. It can sometimes be difficult to find things for them to do indoors that will keep the interested and occupied for any amount of time. Children’s crafts can be a great option!
Doing crafts with your child […]
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Creating A Beautiful Christmas Centerpiece
The arrival of the holidays brings with it the opportunity to entertain. We gather together to celebrate the joy of the season through a multitude of lovely parties – our own or those of our friends’ or family’s. Nothing sets the tone of a holiday gathering more than the decorating of one’s home. Candles […]
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Wightwick Manor
Wightwick Manor (grid reference SO869985) is a Victorian manor house located in Wightwick Bank, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, and one of only a few surviving examples of a house built and furnished under the influence of the Arts and Crafts Movement. It was originally built by the Mander family, who were successful 19th-century industrialists […]
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Wiener Werkstätte
Wiener Werkstätte (en: Vienna Workshops), was founded on May 19, 1903. Two of the founders were the artists Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser. Funding was originally provided by industrialist Fritz Warndorfer.
Important members of this workshop were the painter Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Emily Floege, Max Lenz, Wilhelm Lizst, Emil Orlik, Dagobert Peche, Eduard Wimmer […]
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Towel animal
Crypto-taxidermy
Crypto-taxidermy is the creation of stuffed animals which do not have real, live counterparts, such as the jackalope. They may have mythical counterparts (e.g. dragons), be of the taxidermist’s imagination, or be endangered or extinct species. They can be made from parts of other animals (e.g. chimeras, griffins, capricorns, unicorns) or they may be […]
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Taxidermy
Taxidermy (Greek for “the arrangement of the skin”) is the art of mounting or reproducing animals for display or study. This is a practice generally done with vertebrates, but occasionally with invertebrate animals such as insects. The methods that taxidermists practice have been improved over the last century, heightening taxidermic quality.
Taxidermists may practice professionally, […]
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Standen
Standen is an Arts and Crafts house located near East Grinstead, West Sussex, England. The house and its surrounding gardens belong to the National Trust and are open to the public.
The house
Between 1892 and 1894 architect Philip Webb, who was a friend of William Morris, designed the house for a prosperous London solicitor, James […]
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Scagliola
Scagliola (from the Italian scaglia, meaning “chips”) is a technique for producing plasterwork columns, sculptures, and other architectural elements that resemble marble.
Method
Batches of pigmented plaster (ground alabaster or gypsum) modified with animal glue are applied to molds, armatures and wall planes in a manner that accurately mimics natural stone and marble. In one technique, […]
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Roycroft
Roycroft was a reformist community of craft workers and artists which formed part of the Arts and Crafts movement in the USA. Elbert Hubbard founded the community in 1895 in the village of East Aurora, Erie County, New York, near Buffalo. Participants were known as Roycrofters. The work and philosophy of the group, often […]
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Rogue Taxidermy
Taxidermy is the art of preparing and preserving the skins of animals or its man-made equivalent, and the stuffing & mounting them in a life-like or death-like form. The Modern Rogue Taxidermy movement differs from traditional taxidermy in that Rogue Taxidermists share the mandate to “advocate the showmanship of oddities, espouse the belief in […]
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