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SunSetter's primary product lines are awnings, but the company also manufactures retractable screens, solar shades, flagpoles, and mats. [citation needed] The company currently produces four different types of deck and patio awnings (including motorized and manual awnings); customers choose the color and size. [1]
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(Natural) arches that have collapsed. Pages in category "Collapsed arches" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
Awnings were first used by the ancient Egyptian and Syrian civilizations. They are described as "woven mats" that shaded market stalls and homes. A Roman poet Lucretius, in 50 BC, said "Linen-awning, stretched, over mighty theatres, gives forth at times, a cracking roar, when much 'tis beaten about, betwixt the poles and cross-beams".
Interlaced arches A scheme of decoration employed in Romanesque and Gothic architecture, where arches are thrown from alternate piers, interlacing or intersecting one another. In the former case, the first arch mould is carried alternately over and under the second, in the latter the mouldings actually intersect and stop one another. [57] Ionic ...
A portion of the arch surrounding the keystone is called a crown. [ 4 ] Keystones or their suggested form are sometimes placed for decorative effect in the centre of the flat top of doors, recesses and windows, so as to form an upward projection of a lintel , as a hallmark of strength or good architecture.
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