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2. Toshiko MacAdam - Wikipedia

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   Toshiko MacAdam (born Toshiko Horiuchi) is a Japanese textile artist based in Bridgetown, Nova Scotia, Canada.She is best known for her work with large-scale textile structures, especially "textile playgrounds" for children, brightly colored net-like structures of crocheted and knotted nylon.

3. Tsumugi (cloth) - Wikipedia

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   An unlined (hitoe) kimono made from tsumugi, showing soft drape.Tsumugi (紬) is a traditional slub-woven silk fabric from Japan.It is a tabby weave material woven from yarn produced using silk noil, short-staple silk fibre (as opposed to material produced using longer, filament yarn silk fibres).

4. Tamaki niime - Wikipedia

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   tamaki niime Co., Ltd. (有限会社玉木新雌 Yugen-Gaisha tamaki niime) is a Japanese apparel manufacturer of original Banshu-ori fabrics, based in Nishiwaki-shi, Hyogo. Banshu-ori fabric is made in one continuous production process, starting with a yarn to dyeing to sewing process.

5. Yūki-tsumugi - Wikipedia

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   It is said that the feudal lord of a farmer family in the Hitachi Province sent tsumugi fabric to a governor called Kamakura Kanryo every year as a gift. [2] Developing from earlier silk techniques, the name "yūki-tsumugi" was adopted in 1602. Weavers were invited from Ueda Castle and the cloth, at first plain, was used as a gift for the ...

6. Kakiemon elephants (British Museum) - Wikipedia

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   The Kakiemon elephants are a pair of 17th century Japanese porcelain figures of elephants in the British Museum. They were made by one of the Kakiemon potteries, which created the first enamelled porcelain in Japan, [1] and exported by the early Dutch East India Company. These figures are thought to have been made between 1660 and 1690 and are ...

7. Size, Tusks, and Ears: How African and Asian Elephants Differ

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   When looking at an African elephant and an Asian elephant side-by-side, you can really tell the differences in their head shapes and tasks. African elephants generally have much larger tusks than ...