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French cleat on a wall (left) and correspondingly on a shelf to be hung up (right) A French cleat is a way of securing a cabinet , mirror, tools, artwork or other objects to a wall. [ 1 ] It is a molding with a 45 degree slope used to hang cabinets or other objects.
Hanging crafts are also called by the names like Wall décor, Wall art, Wall Crafts, etc. Hanging crafts can project abstract shapes fashioned from sheet metal, wood, paper or plastic materials, connected by wire or chord, whose individual elements are capable of moving independently or as a whole when prompted by air movement or direct contact.
Full-body hook-and-loop suits have been made that can hold a person to a suitably covered wall. When one or both of the pieces is flexible, e.g., a pocket flap, the pieces can be pulled apart with a peeling action that applies the force to relatively few hooks at a time.
A toggle bolt, also known as a butterfly anchor, is a fastener for hanging objects on hollow walls such as drywall. Toggle bolts have wings that open inside a hollow wall, bracing against it to hold the fastener securely. [1] The wings, once fully opened, greatly expand the surface area making contact with the back of the hollow wall.
A wallpaper group (or plane symmetry group or plane crystallographic group) is a mathematical classification of a two-dimensional repetitive pattern, based on the symmetries in the pattern. Such patterns occur frequently in architecture and decorative art, especially in textiles, tiles, and wallpaper.
Mud and Mirror Work is mainly done by the women of the Kumbhars, Rabari, Mutwa, and Marwada communities who do lippan. [4] It is believed that lippan began with the intention of brightening homes that seemed morose and dull. [1] The women are so experienced in this art form that they usually don’t draw or trace a pattern before beginning work.
Tilings and patterns - an introduction, a paperback reprint of the first seven chapters of the 1987 original, was published in 1989. [20] In 2016 a second edition of the full text was published by Dover in paperback, with a new preface and an appendix describing progress in the subject since the first edition. [21]
The seven panels of this wall hanging, in alternating crimson and emerald velvet, were sewn not by women, as was typical of Moroccan embroidery, but by professional male needleworkers. That is because this haiti represents the most prestigious and complicated form of textile. The men were under close supervision by the leatherworkers' guild ...