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Ala-kiyiz in making. After wool has been formed in patterns, the cloth is being rolled together for the fulling process.. Ala kiyiz (Kyrgyz: ала кийиз, IPA: [ɑɫɑ́ kʰɪjɪ́s]) or tekemet (Kazakh: текемет, IPA: [tʰʲekʰʲemʲét]) is an ornamenting style for textile floor- or wallcovering made by pressing wet, soaped wool of various colours together to make it felt.
Woodturning is the craft of using a wood lathe with hand-held tools to cut a shape that is symmetrical around the axis of rotation. Like the potter's wheel , the wood lathe is a mechanism that can generate a variety of forms.
Woodworking was essential to the Romans. It provided, material for buildings, transportation, tools, and household items. Wood also provided pipes, dye, waterproofing materials, and energy for heat. [5]: 1 Although most examples of Roman woodworking have been lost, [5]: 2 the literary record preserved much of the contemporary knowledge.
The School for American Crafts (originally the School for American Craftsmen, SAC) was founded by Aileen Osborn Webb and the American Craftsmen's Council (ACC) in the 1940s. It sought to provide training in traditional crafts and "to develop and raise the standards of the hand arts in the United States." [1] [2] [3]
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Wood-carving examples of the first eleven centuries of CE are rare due to the fact that woods do decay easily in 1,000 years. The carved panels of the main doors of St Sabina on the Aventine Hill , Rome, are very interesting specimens of early Christian relief sculpture in wood, dating, as the dresses show, from the 5th century.
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