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2. Netsuke - Wikipedia

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   Ivory, amber buffalo horn. A netsuke (根付, [netsɯ̥ke]) is a miniature sculpture, originating in 17th century Japan. Initially a simply-carved button fastener on the cords of an inrō box, netsuke later developed into ornately sculpted objects of craftsmanship. [1]

3. Conservation and restoration of bone, horn, and antler objects

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   Horn comes in a great variety of sizes and colors, including white, green, red, brown, and black. Horn can be used in its natural state, boiled, cut, molded to other shapes, or used in flat sheets. It has been used for a variety of objects including ceremonial decorations, utensils such as spoons and containers, gaming pieces, and combs.

4. Handicraft - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

5. Bone carving - Wikipedia

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   Bone carving is creating art, tools, and other goods by carving animal bones, antlers, and horns. It can result in the ornamentation of a bone by engraving, painting or another technique, or the creation of a distinct formed object. Bone carving has been practiced by a variety of world cultures, sometimes as a cheaper, and recently a legal ...

6. Iznik pottery - Wikipedia

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   The 1520s was a period which saw the spiral-decorated ‘Golden Horn’ wares with their close link to imperial manuscript illumination, and the close relationship between imperial architecture and pottery vessels produced at Iznik, and an adaptation of Chinese porcelain designs represented by the collections of the Topkapi Saray [61]

7. Olifant (instrument) - Wikipedia

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   Olifant (instrument) Roland blows his olifant to summon help in the midst of the Battle of Roncevaux. Olifant (also known as oliphant) was the name applied in the Middle Ages to a type of carved ivory hunting horn created from elephant tusks. [1] Olifants were most prominently used in Europe from roughly the tenth to the sixteenth century ...