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Root carving and engraving share expressive techniques with wood carving, sculpture, and stone carving. However, root carving places a focus on enhancing and preserving the natural shape of the roots, in addition to artificial polishing. Root carving is guided by the inherent qualities of the root rather than by strictly carving images.
Natural stone is used as architectural stone (construction, flooring, cladding, counter tops, curbing, etc.) and as raw block and monument stone for the funerary trade. Natural stone is also used in custom stone engraving. The engraved stone can be either decorative or functional. Natural memorial stones are used as natural burial markers.
various CC licenses (350 million CC images of 6+ billion images [47] [48]) Mapillary: Over 30 million free photos: CC BY-SA: Metropolitan Museum of Art: paintings and artworks: CC0 (375.000) [49] Mushroom Observer: collaborative amateur mycology database with approx. 600,000 observational photos [50] [51] CC BY-SA or CC BY-NC-SA [52] Open Game Art
The holiday decoration staple, which is ubiquitous this time of year, has royal roots that many may not know about — Queen Victoria helped popularize the Christmas tree during her reign.
Christmas tree decorated with lights, stars, and glass balls Glade jul by Viggo Johansen (1891), showing a Danish family's Christmas tree North American family decorating Christmas tree (c. 1970s) A Christmas tree is a decorated tree, usually an evergreen conifer, such as a spruce, pine or fir, associated with the celebration of Christmas. [1]
Painted stones, featuring one with a sailboat on the ocean and blue sky. The Kindness Rocks Project is a viral trend where people, commonly children, paint pebbles or cobbles and leave them for others to find and collect. Photos of the painted rocks and hints of where to find them are commonly shared on Facebook groups. [1]
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Beginning in 1949, Creative Playthings embarked on a series of collaborations with the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. In 1949, the children’s room and playroom of Marcel Breuer’s "House in the Museum Garden" (a model one-family home in the east end of the MoMA sculpture garden) was composed almost entirely of Creative Playthings objects and designs, including their "Hollow ...