Wood has been used for making buildings and furniture since time immemorial. With the evolution of time a great deal of development has taken place in the wood working practices among the carpenters. From hand operated chisels and saws to ...
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The ancient Germans lay on the floor on beds of leaves covered with skins, or in a kind of shallow chest filled with leaves and moss. In the early Middle Ages they laid carpets on the floor or on a bench against the wall, placed upon them ...
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Ancient world Early beds were little more than piles of straw or some other natural material (e.g. a heap of palm leaves, animal skins or dried bracken). An important change was raising them off the ground, to avoid drafts, dirt, and ...
If you're looking for a dog house that's unlike all the others on the block and that makes its own fashion statement, then you're in the market for a designer dog house. Some designer dog houses are one-offs created by crafts-people on a ...
Chinese Ming furniture is known for its simple and elegant design with fluent lines and appealing proportions. Qing furniture is larger than that of the Ming Dynasty and more imposing, with elaborate carving and inlaid decoration. Both ...
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Furniture is part of a convention concerning people's residence. Its design, manufacture and style reflect the spiritual outlook and aesthetic taste of a time. The Ming and Qing dynasties were the golden age of Chinese traditional ...
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Definition: Zitan is a member of the rosewood family, botanically classified in the Pterocarpus genus. Virtually unknown in the West for a long time, it is possibly the most prized wood among tropical hardwoods because of its rarity. ...
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There are some common construction terms for wood furniture that come up again and again.What does it mean when the manufacturer says it is made of hardwood?Softwood?Engineered wood?Here is your chance to find out before you buy wood ...
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The caquetoire became popular in the late sixteenth century Europe.It was also known as the gossip chair.Since women wore voluminous farthingale skirts,they were cumbersome to manage in regular chairs.As furniture's basic function is to ...
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While existing technology continues to advance in incremental - boring - steps, the next wave is on its way, promising to turn us all into friendlier, more-adventurous versions of the Terminator. I welcome our new google overlords. ...
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Despite inroads from cross-flow membrane technology, granular media filtration remains popular. Purchases of granular media filters will exceed $1.6 billion in 2014. They will constitute 25% of the $6.5 billion liquid macrofiltration ...
The global financial crisis has not dampened the spirits of the Fenzi group; it has acted as a stimulus for developing new products and carving out new market shares in the decorative paints market. Unlike its competitors who have ...
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In the midst of a recession, being your own boss is not such a bad idea. Instead of working for a company whose sales and marketing practices might not be attuned to the recessionary marketplace, you can hold the reigns yourself, and focus ...
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Smack Sportswear the leading brand of custom team and beach active apparel, announced that its newly appointed Chief Financial Officer, Charles Lesser, will leverage his success as the former CFO of True Religion Apparel, Inc., to direct ...
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Surface RT finding a place in the tablet market "is not going to happen" while Surface Pro isn't "going to make a dent either". So said ex-Microsoft senior vice president Joachim Kempin when asked to assess the company's chances of ...
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