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  2. Hanging craft - Wikipedia

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    A wall hanging craft is a decoration, an amulet, a religious or a symbolic object that is hung from the ceiling or another structure. The sculptor Alexander Calder invented the mobiles, popular in the nursery, to give infants something to entertain them and give them external visual stimulation. [1] Kakemono, a Japanese hanging, is intended to ...

  3. Pla taphian - Wikipedia

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    Pla taphian. The pla taphian ( Thai: ปลาตะเพียน, pronounced [plāː tā.pʰīa̯n]) is a traditional central Thai handicraft. It is a woven hanging mobile, usually made from palm leaves, in the form of a fish (specifically the barb, which gives it its name). [ 1] The barb is traditionally regarded as a symbol of prosperity ...

  4. Hanging scroll - Wikipedia

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    kakejiku. A hanging scroll is one of the many traditional ways to display and exhibit East Asian painting and calligraphy. They are different from handscrolls, which are narrower and designed to be viewed flat on a table. Hanging scrolls are generally intended to be displayed for short periods of time, after which they are rolled up and tied ...

  5. Dreamcatcher - Wikipedia

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    Dreamcatcher. In some Native American and First Nations cultures, a dreamcatcher (Ojibwe: asabikeshiinh, the inanimate form of the word for 'spider') [1] is a handmade willow hoop, on which is woven a net or web. It may also be decorated with sacred items such as certain feathers or beads. Traditionally, dreamcatchers are hung over a cradle or ...

  6. Alse Young - Wikipedia

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    Alse Young (1615 [1] – 26 May 1647) of Windsor, Connecticut — sometimes Achsah Young or Alice Young — was the first recorded instance of execution for witchcraft in the thirteen American colonies. She had one child, Alice Beamon (Young), born in 1640, [2] who was also condemned for the same crime thirty years later in the 1670s, but was ...

  7. Mobile (sculpture) - Wikipedia

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    A mobile (UK: / ˈmoʊbaɪl /, [1] US: / ˈmoʊbiːl /) [2] is a type of kinetic sculpture constructed to take advantage of the principle of equilibrium. It consists of a number of rods, from which weighted objects or further rods hang. The objects hanging from the rods balance each other, so that the rods remain more or less horizontal.

  8. Kakemono - Wikipedia

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    A kakemono (掛物, "hanging thing"), more commonly referred to as a kakejiku (掛軸, "hung scroll"), is a Japanese hanging scroll used to display and exhibit paintings and calligraphy inscriptions and designs mounted usually with silk fabric edges on a flexible backing, so that it can be rolled for storage. The "Maruhyōsō" style of kakejiku ...

  9. Lamen (magic) - Wikipedia

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    John Dee's Heptarchic Lamen. A lamen (Latin, meaning "plate") is a magical parchment or pendant, sometimes acting as a protective 'magical breastplate' worn around the neck so that it hangs upon the breast over the heart. [1] Its uses vary but, most commonly, the term refers to a symbol of authority and a focus of magical energies. [1][2]

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