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2. Bed hangings - Wikipedia

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   Bed hangings or bed curtains are fabric panels that surround a bed; they were used from medieval times through to the 19th century. Bed hangings provided privacy when the master or great bed was in a public room, such as the parlor, but also showed evidence of wealth when beds were located in areas of the home where .

3. Curtain wall (architecture) - Wikipedia

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   Curtain walls may be designed as "systems" integrating frame, wall panel, and weatherproofing materials. Steel frames have largely given way to aluminum extrusions. Glass is typically used for infill because it can reduce construction costs, provide an architecturally pleasing look, and allow natural light to penetrate deeper within the ...

4. Shoji - Wikipedia

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   Literally, shoji means "small obstructing thing" (障子; it might be translated as "screen"), and though this use is now obsolete, [4] shoji was originally used for a variety of sight-obstructing panels, screens, or curtains, [4] many portable, [94] either free-standing or hung from lintels, [95] used to divide the interior space of buildings ...

5. Domestic furnishing in early modern Scotland - Wikipedia

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   A cabinet room for James VI at Stirling Castle, a small space next to king's bedchamber in the palace, was also finished in green. [120] The wealthy merchant John Clerk settled at Newbiggin House at Penicuik , and in 1665 ordered striped wall hangings from a weaver working in Edinburgh's Canongate , James Crommie or Crombie.

6. Focal-plane shutter - Wikipedia

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   Focal-plane shutters may also produce image distortion of very fast-moving objects or when panned rapidly, as described in the Rolling shutter article. A large relative difference between a slow wipe speed and a narrow curtain slit results in distortion because one side of the frame is exposed at a noticeably later instant than the other and the object's interim movement is imaged.

7. Rembrandt catalogue raisonné, 1968 - Wikipedia

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   Oil on panel: 79 x 102.3: private collection David playing the harp before Saul: c. 1630: Oil on panel: 62 x 50: Städel, Frankfurt am Main The Supper at Emmaus: 1629: Oil on panel: 37.4 x 42.3: Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris The Tribute Money: 1631: Oil paint: National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa The Raising of Lazarus: c. 1630–1632: Oil on ...