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Wreath
A wreath is a ring made of flowers, leaves, and sometimes fruits, used as an ornament, hanging on a wall or door, or resting on a table.
Use by culture
These wreaths were festive crowns worn by many Romans. Wreaths were usually for women, and men usually wore crowns. They were a symbol of pride, and […]
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Woodcut
Woodcut is a relief printing artistic technique in printmaking in which an image is carved into the surface of a block of wood, with the printing parts remaining level with the surface while the non-printing parts are removed, typically with gouges. The areas to show ‘white’ are cut away with a knife or chisel, […]
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Wall unit
A wall unit is a premanufactured furnishing that has become very popular the past 25 years. Comprised of several discrete components that are usually fixed to an internal wall of a room. Wall unit fixtures are usually customised per installation and range in style from contemporary to traditional in order to match the decore […]
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Vase
The vase is an open container, often used to hold cut flowers. It can be made from a number of materials including porcelain, ceramics and glass. The vase is often decorated and thus used to extend the beauty of its contents.
Vases are defined as having a certain anatomy. Lowest is the foot, a distinguishable […]
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Tumble polishing
Tumble polishing, or tumbling, is a technique for smoothing and polishing a hard substance. Within the field of metalwork, this is known as “barrelling”, or “barrel polishing”, and is subtly different, but uses the same principles.
Stone
For tumbling of rocks as a lapidary technique, a plastic or rubber barrel is loaded with a consignment of […]
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Trencadís
Trencadís (Catalan language) is a type of mosaic created from broken tile shards. The technique is also called pique assiette.
The Catalan architects Antoni Gaudí and Josep Maria Jujol used trencadís in many projects, among which Barcelona’s Park Güell is probably the most famous.
The effect of thousands of brightly-colored patterns dancing together under the Mediterranean […]
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Toile
Toile is a word that entered the English language around the 15th century from a French word meaning “cloth” or “web” — particularly cloth or canvas for painting on. The word toile in modern English has multiple meanings.
Test garment
A toile is a version of a garment made by fashion designers to test a pattern. […]
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Titania’s Palace
Titania’s Palace is a dollhouse that was hand-built by Sir Neville Wilkinson from 1907 to 1922.
Wilkinson’s daughter Gwendolyn claimed to have seen a fairy running under the roots of a tree, in a wood beside their home at Mount Merrion House. It is said that Gwendolyn felt sorry for the fairies, who have to […]
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Tile
A tile is a manufactured piece of hard-wearing material such as ceramic, stone, porcelain, metal or even glass. Tiles are generally used for covering roofs, floors, and walls, or other objects such as tabletops. Another category are the ceiling tiles, made from lightweight materials such as perlite and mineral wool. The word is derived […]
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Tessera
A tessera (plural: tesserae, diminutive tessella) is an individual tile in a mosaic, usually formed in the shape of a cube.
In antiquity, mosaics were formed from naturally colored pebbles, but by 200 BCE purpose-made tesserae were being used. Marble or limestone was cut into small cubes that were arranged into the required design. Later, […]
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