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  2. Acanthus (ornament) - Wikipedia

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    Curling acanthus-type leaves occur frequently in the borders and ornamented initial letters of illuminated manuscripts, and are commonly found in combination with palmettes in woven silk textiles. In the Renaissance classical models were followed closely, and the acanthus becomes recognisable again in large-scale architectural examples. The ...

  3. Vinyl cutter - Wikipedia

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    This blade is used to cut out shapes and letters from sheets of thin self-adhesive plastic . The vinyl can then be stuck to a variety of surfaces depending on the adhesive and type of material. To cut out a design, a vector-based image must be created using vector drawing software. Some vinyl cutters are marketed to small in-home businesses and ...

  4. Stencil - Wikipedia

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    Stencil lithography has unique advantages compared to other patterning techniques: it does not require spinning [clarification needed] of a uniform layer of resist (therefore patterns can be created on 3D topographies) and it does not involve any heat or chemical treatment of the substrate (like baking, developing and removing the resist). Thus ...

  5. Leaf painting - Wikipedia

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    Leaf painting is the process of painting with dyed leaves. Deriving from Japan , China or India , it became popular in Vietnam . Its two main forms are: Cutting and pasting dry leaf to make leaf paintings or using paint to draw onto the surface of dry leaf to make leaf paintings.

  6. Leaf carving - Wikipedia

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    Leaf carving is an artwork involving the delicate trimming of leaves to develop a picture or landscape. [1] [2] The process of carving is performed by artists using tools to carefully cut the surface without cutting or removing the veins. The veins add detail into the subject matter of the carving.

  7. Glossary of leaf morphology - Wikipedia

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    Leaves of most plants include a flat structure called the blade or lamina supported by a network of veins, a petiole and a leaf base; [1] but not all leaves are flat, some are cylindrical. [ citation needed ] Leaves may be simple, with a single leaf blade, or compound, with several leaflets .

  8. Fleuron (typography) - Wikipedia

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    Thirty forms of fleuron have code points in Unicode.The Dingbats and Miscellaneous Symbols blocks have three fleurons that the standard calls "floral hearts" (also called "aldus leaf", "ivy leaf", "hedera" and "vine leaf"); [7] twenty-four fleurons (from the pre-Unicode Wingdings and Wingdings 2 fonts) in the Ornamental Dingbats block and three more fleurons used in archaic languages are also ...

  9. Barnsley fern - Wikipedia

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    Fractal fern in four states of construction. Highlighted triangles show how the half of one leaflet is transformed to half of one whole leaf or frond.. Though Barnsley's fern could in theory be plotted by hand with a pen and graph paper, the number of iterations necessary runs into the tens of thousands, which makes use of a computer practically mandatory.