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Decoupage or découpage ( / ˌdeɪkuːˈpɑːʒ /; [ 1] French: [dekupaʒ]) is the art of decorating an object by gluing colored paper cutouts onto it in combination with special paint effects, gold leaf, and other decorative elements. Commonly, an object like a small box or an item of furniture is covered by cutouts from magazines or from ...
Scrapbooking is a method of preserving, presenting, and arranging personal and family history in the form of a book, box, or card. Typical memorabilia include photographs, printed media, and artwork. Scrapbook albums are often decorated and frequently contain extensive journal entries or written descriptions.
Didacticism. Didacticism is a philosophy that emphasises instructional and informative qualities in literature, art, and design. [ 1][ 2][ 3] In art, design, architecture, and landscape, didacticism is a conceptual approach that is driven by the urgent need to explain. [ 3]
Collage novels are books with images selected from other publications and collaged together following a theme or narrative. The bible of discordianism, the Principia Discordia, is described by its author as a literary collage. A collage in literary terms may also refer to a layering of ideas or images.
Reading is the process of taking in the sense or meaning of letters, symbols, etc., especially by sight or touch. [1] [2] [3] [4]For educators and researchers, reading is a multifaceted process involving such areas as word recognition, orthography (spelling), alphabetics, phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, and motivation.
A text created from lines of a newspaper tourism article. The cut-up technique (or découpé in French) is an aleatory narrative technique in which a written text is cut up and rearranged to create a new text. The concept can be traced to the Dadaists of the 1920s, but it was developed and popularized in the 1950s and early 1960s, especially by ...
A hornbook ( horn-book) is a single-sided alphabet tablet, which served from medieval times as a primer for study, [ 1] and sometimes included vowel combinations, numerals or short verse. [ 2] The hornbook was in common use in England around 1450, [ 3] but may have originated more than a century earlier. [ 4]
Paper craft. Paper craft is a collection of crafts using paper or card as the primary artistic medium for the creation of two or three-dimensional objects. Paper and card stock lend themselves to a wide range of techniques and can be folded, curved, bent, cut, glued, molded, stitched, or layered. [ 1] Papermaking by hand is also a paper craft.