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  2. Rose engine lathe - Wikipedia

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    A rosette or cam-like pattern mounted on the spindle is controlled by moving against a cam follower(s) while the lathe spindle rotates. Rose engine work can make flower patterns, as well as convoluted, symmetrical, multi-lobed geometric patterns. The patterns it produces are similar to that of a Spirograph, in metal. No other ornamental lathe ...

  3. Floral industry - Wikipedia

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    Procona system for shipping cut flowers in water on pallet. Start with the cardboard boxes for shipping cut flowers and cut greens and the large containers for air transport. Some flowers are packed in pallets covered with a special grade of stretch film called Air-O film [16] that allows air circulation in the pallets.

  4. Rose-painting - Wikipedia

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    It then spread to wooden items commonly used in daily life, such as ale bowls, stools, chairs, cupboards, boxes, and trunks. Using stylized ornamentation made up of fantasy flowers, scrollwork, fine line work, flowing patterns and sometimes geometric elements give rose-painting its unique feel. Some paintings may include landscapes and ...

  5. Floral design - Wikipedia

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    A woman creating a flower arrangement in the 1930s in Tokyo, Japan An arrangement displayed at a church in Beer, United Kingdom. Floral design or flower arrangement is the art of using plant material and flowers to create an eye-catching and balanced composition or display.

  6. Marquetry - Wikipedia

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    Marquetry (also spelled as marqueterie; from the French marqueter, to variegate) is the art and craft of applying pieces of veneer to a structure to form decorative patterns or designs. The technique may be applied to case furniture or even seat furniture, to decorative small objects with smooth, veneerable surfaces or to freestanding pictorial ...

  7. Kohlrosing - Wikipedia

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    Sami spoon with red kohlrosing, dated 1889 from Namsskogan Municipality in Trøndelag.Photo Anne-Lise Reinsfelt, Norsk Folkemuseum, NFSA.0294J. Kohlrosing (a.k.a. Kolrosing) is the Scandinavian tradition of incising thin decorative lines and patterns in carved wood and filling with dark powders (charcoal, coal dust, coffee grounds, graphite, ground bark) or colored wax, etc. for contrast. [1]

  8. Falcataria falcata - Wikipedia

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    Commercial uses – Falcataria falcata softwood is used to make match-sticks, chopsticks, shipping pallets, and wooden boxes. The pulp is used for paper-making. [ 11 ] Plywood production and veneer based products have increasingly been an important use for these trees.

  9. Anthurium andraeanum - Wikipedia

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    The spathe is cartilage-waxy, brightly coloured (red, pink) and 8–15 cm long, excluding the inflorescence (the spadix), which is 7–9 cm long, similar to a candle-holder, white or yellow in colour, is erected, and bears many small hermaphroditic flowers. These include a perianth with four segments and stamens with a compressed mesh ...