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The Quilt Index Wiki which became live in August 2008, is a collaborative, user-generated tool for quilters and quilt scholars featuring information about state and provincial quilt documentation projects, including publication lists and locations where records are housed. The wiki also provides an expanding directory of museums with quilt ...
The biennial Index Award was initiated in 2005, and originally financed by the state of Denmark with a total prize sum worth €500,000. [12] [13] In 2005, it was the world's largest monetary award in its area, [14] [15] [16] and today is widely recognised as the most influential in inspiring life-improving design, [17] [18] [19] and has often been dubbed the "Nobel Prize of design".
Batik craftswomen in Java, Indonesia Savisiipi handicrafts store in Pori, Finland A handicraft Selling-Factory shop, Isfahan, Iran Artesanato Mineiro. A handicraft is a traditional main sector of craft making and applies to a wide range of creative and design activities that are related to making things with one's hands and skill, including work with textiles, moldable and rigid materials ...
The Index Project: The Index Project: Improvement of life worldwide, both in developed and developing countries [33] [34] [35] Finland: Kaj Franck Prize: Design Forum Finland: Finnish design [36] Finland: Fennia Prize: Design Forum Finland, Fennia Group: Good design grows global competition [37] France: Observeur du Design: Agence pour la ...
Handmade Candles. Teacups offer elegant vessels for hand-poured candles. Repurpose china from old place settings, mixing and matching pieces. Or single out a favorite new find, such as this one ...
Mirzapur Handmade Dari: Handicraft Uttar Pradesh: 2014–2015 236 437 Memong Narang: Agricultural Meghalaya: 2015–16 237 459 Nizamabad Black Pottery: Handicrafts Uttar Pradesh: 2015–16 238 145 Basmati: Agricultural Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Delhi, Uttarkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir: 2015–16 239 505 Bagh Prints of Madhya ...
A craft is a work of physical expression drawn from imagination or existing culture, largely by using hands. A craft is typically birthed by creativity and intentional design, through the application of skill(s)/ techniques and can extend across a wide range of areas from dance, embroidery to photography.
"The notion of folk objects tends to emphasize the handmade over machine manufactured. Folk objects imply a mode of production common to preindustrial communal society where knowledge and skills were personal and traditional." [7] Folk art does not need to be old; it continues to be hand-crafted today in many regions around the world.