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Shettar has also created works connecting hand-molded wax beads with cotton thread. [18] In her work Just a bit more (2005-2006), [19] which is now in the permanent collection of MoMA New York, the artist really relied on the lightweight and translucent quality of the material to create an intricate web of threads. [20]
Israel Sack (September 15, 1883 – May 4, 1959) was a Lithuanian American antiques dealer specializing in early American furniture. [1] Sack was instrumental in developing the private collections of Henry Ford, Henry Francis du Pont, Ima Hogg, and other leading collectors and supplying the Americana collections of "virtually every major museum in the country" per The New York Times. [2]
Red velvet with silk and metallic thread and seed pearls; length 5ft. 6in. (167.6cm), width 30in. (76.2cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Another exemplary work of Opus Anglicanum is the Chichester-Constable Chasuble, currently held in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. [1] This piece of needlework is covered with ...
Goldwork (embroidery) Goldwork is the art of embroidery using metal threads. It is particularly prized for the way light plays on it. The term "goldwork" is used even when the threads are imitation gold, silver, or copper. The metal wires used to make the threads have never been entirely gold; they have always been gold-coated silver or cheaper ...
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LONDON — It’s been a strong year for fine jewelry — particularly for Threads, the social shopping platform that sells luxury via Instagram and WhatsApp and has a no-inventory business model ...
Hobby Lobby to pay $3 million fine, forfeit ancient artifacts, CNN; Iraqi Artifacts Once Bought by Hobby Lobby Will Return Home, The New York Times; Hobby Lobby's Smuggled Artifacts Will Be Returned To Iraq, NPR; Some of Hobby Lobby’s Smuggled Artifacts May Come From Lost Sumerian City, Smithsonian
The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, commonly referred to as the Clark, is an art museum and research institution located in Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States. Its collection consists of European and American paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, photographs, and decorative arts from the fourteenth to the early twentieth ...