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Little is known about the way the pottery was produced, but it was probably in small artisanal workshops, often clustered in settlements near good sources of clay for potting. For many, potting may well have been a seasonal activity, combined with farming, although the volume and sophistication of later wares suggests full-time specialists, and ...
Charivari was sometimes called "riding the 'stang", when the target was a man who had been subject to scolding, beating, or other abuse from his wife. The man was made to "ride the 'stang", which meant that he was placed backwards on a horse, mule or ladder and paraded through town to be mocked, while people banged pots and pans. [50] [51] [52 ...
Ceramics of Indigenous peoples of the Americas is an art form with at least a 7500-year history in the Americas. [ 1 ] Pottery is fired ceramics with clay as a component. Ceramics are used for utilitarian cooking vessels, serving and storage vessels, pipes, funerary urns, censers, musical instruments, ceremonial items, masks, toys, sculptures ...
Purple Joe-Pye weed (Eutrochium purpureum)Purple Joe-Pye weed is a towering perennial in the aster family with large clusters of late-summer pink-purple flowers atop stems that can reach 6-feet ...
The garden pansy ( Viola × wittrockiana) is a type of polychromatic large-flowered hybrid plant cultivated as a garden flower. [ 2] It is derived by hybridization from several species in the section Melanium ("the pansies") [ 3] of the genus Viola, particularly V. tricolor, a wildflower of Europe and western Asia known as heartsease.
Apr. 28—That saying, "April showers bring May flowers" probably wasn't written with Spokane in mind. Sure, some bulbs, flowering trees and perennials are blooming, or will be in the next few weeks.
Roseville Pottery. The Roseville Pottery Company was an American art pottery manufacturer in the 19th and 20th centuries. Along with Rookwood Pottery and Weller Pottery, it was one of the three major art potteries located in Ohio around the turn of the 20th century. Though the company originally made simple household pieces, the Arts and Crafts ...
Aug. 6—I often hear gardeners say their gardens look tired, spent or drab as the weeks of August go by. And it's often true. We tend to hurry to buy plants in the spring, excited by emerging ...