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Kindeels are hung for around a month from the first day of Diwali. Kandeels are traditionally built in a crystal shape with tails at the bottom; shapes include stars, globes, delicate dotted designs, and simple drawings. Opaque papers cut into a complex design give more beauty to a Kandeel by blocking some of the light behind it.
The Lucerna Magic Lantern Web Resource [1] and the Magic Lantern and Lantern Slide Catalog Collection on Media History Digital Library [2] offer sources that display the range of terminology used. This list welcomes all references, independent of the term that the respective collection uses to describe its material.
Kandil (from Arabic: قنديل, romanized: qindīl) refers to five Islamic holy nights, celebrated in Ottoman and Muslim Balkan communities, related to the life of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, when the minarets are illuminated and special prayers are made.
Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose is an oil-on-canvas painting made by the American painter John Singer Sargent in 1885–86. [1]The painting depicts two small children dressed in white who are lighting paper lanterns as day turns to evening; they are in a garden strewn with pink roses, accents of yellow carnations and tall white lilies (possibly the Japanese mountain lily, Lilium auratum) behind them.
A relative of the Chinese paper lantern, the chōchin has a frame of split bamboo wound in a spiral. Paper or silk protect the flame from wind. Paper or silk protect the flame from wind. The spiral structure permits it to be collapsed into the basket at the bottom. [ 8 ]
In its primary sense, the term was created by Franz Cižek (1865–1946) in the 1890s. The following usages denote and connote different, sometimes parallel meanings: . In the world of contemporary fine art, "child art" refers to a subgenre of artists who depict children in their works;
The Secret City was a television series designed to teach children how to draw. [1] The series was produced by Maryland Public Television and aired on PBS [2] and TVOntario in the late 1980s. The series starred Mark Kistler as Commander Mark who led viewers through various drawing exercises and examples. It also featured other characters ...
A Star lantern (Vietnamese: Đèn ông sao) is a traditional Vietnamese toy often used in Mid-Autumn Festival. The toy is made from bamboo , Neohouzeaua coloured paper and jute . The toy is highly regarded in Vietnamese society as a unique and distinct part of Mid-Autumn Festival and are handmade in specialized traditional craft villages .