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Scottish country dance (SCD) is the distinctively Scottish form of country dance, itself a form of social dance involving groups of couples of dancers tracing progressive patterns. A dance consists of a sequence of figures. These dances are set to musical forms (Jigs, Reels and Strathspey Reels) which come from the Gaelic tradition of Highland ...
Originating in Tudor period England, blackwork typically, though not always, takes the form of a counted-thread embroidery, where the warp and weft yarns of a fabric are counted for the length of each stitch, producing uniform-length stitches and a precise pattern on an even-weave fabric. Blackwork may also take the form of free-stitch ...
Selburose. In Norwegian knitting, a selburose ( Norwegian: [ˈsæ̀ɽbʉˌɾuːsə]) is a knitted rose pattern in the shape of a regular octagram. It is traditionally used for winter clothing such as the Selbu mitten ( selbuvott) and sweaters ( lusekofte, lopapeysa and mariusgenser ). Of ancient origin, the pattern is associated with the town ...
Rose-painting, rosemaling, rosemåling or rosmålning is a Scandinavian decorative folk painting that flourished from the 1700s to the mid-1800s, particularly in Norway. In Sweden, rose-painting began to be called dalmålning, c. 1901, for the region Dalecarlia where it had been most popular and kurbits, in the 1920s, for a characteristic trait ...
After months of grieving, the family decided to bring home a new puppy that they named Fiona. She's adorable and loves to play. She wants to play with the family cats, but they are not at all ...
On Friday evening, Ashley stepped out to the festival’s opening ceremony in a red-hot look from the London label 16Arlington’s spring 2024 runway. She turned heads in a red feather print dress ...
This sweet and expressive Bernedoodle is a family gal through and through, and she's always enjoying time with her human parents and Pug sister. When they showed her a harmonica for the first time ...
The song "American Beauty Rose" was written in 1950 and popularized by Frank Sinatra . In the musical "Funny Girl", protagonist Fanny Brice humorously refers to herself as an "American beauty rose / with an American beauty nose / and ten American beauty toes" in the song " I'm the Greatest Star ." In Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22 an aged ...