Popular online home fabric retailer Curtains Made Simple this week introduced a new Scandinavian line of top quality fabrics for curtains, blinds, cushions and table covers from the cream of Swedish and Finnish-influenced design. Up to 12 ...
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Intertextile Shanghai Home Textiles – Autumn Edition returns again this year with exciting new opportunities for participants to gain a foothold in China. Now a show about more than just textiles, it is the perfect chance for ...
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South Korean manufacturer LG this morning finally released its premium Optimus G smartphone onto the Australian market making it available through Telstra from today. At a launch held at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art, LG ...
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Nearly thirteen textile collections from eight Latin American countries, including Mexico, Guatemala, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Panama and Argentina, will be exhibited at Chile’s Centro Cultural Palacio de La Moneda from March ...
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Jiangyong Nv Shu is the only existing female characters in the world. It is a writing system exclusively used by women in the Jiangxu area of Jiangyong County of just 20,000 people in the south tip of Hunan Province. Nv Shu characters are ...
The Shui script is the generic term for ancient characters and books of the Shui minority. It is ancient character symbols that resemble oracle bone inscriptions and bronze inscriptions, recording ancient cultural information such as ...
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With more than 75 years of experience baking Europe's favorite cookies, Lotus Bakeries announces the release of new packaging for Anna's Thins, available throughout North American markets this month. The new packaging was created by ...
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The main distribution of the Bai people is in the Dali Bai Autonomous County of Yunnan Province, together with Lijiang, Kunming, Yuanjiang, Guizhou and so on. According to the census taken in 2000, the Bai ethnic group numbered some ...
Pipa Ge or lute ballad, a kind of folk songs of Dong minority in China that has been passed down from generation to generation, was listed in the directory of China's intangible cultural heritages in 2006. Pipa Ge is prevailing in the ...
Kedao (record by carving) of the Miao minority, also called the marital song there, is a kind of Miao toast song in Shibing County. The general content of the song is carved on the cylinder bamboo or wood club and the Miao people would hold ...
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STAGE The Christmas Schooner Have yourself a City of Big Shoulders Christmas at the Mercury Theater, the current home of the beloved Chicago musical, “The Christmas Schooner.” Created by John Reeger and Julie Shannon, ...
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According to Annuals of Cang County, records and folklore, Cang County Lion Dance goes back to the Ming Dynasty. And it is very popular all over the country since it is ardent, naughty and vivid. Some of the lions’ heads are pasted by ...
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Nanjing forging industry of gold foil originated in the area around Longtan Garden in Qixia District, which once belonged to Jurong County and Jiangning County. In all rural families of this area, the handcraft of "forging foils and ...
The four-happiness baby figurine (Sixi Wawa) is a kind of folk doll made according to the conjoined shape of babies. People either display it at home or hang it on the body, in the hope of bringing happiness and fortune. The ...
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Sang Liangshu was once a typical Chinese housewife. That was before being inspired by her family's intense interest in art. She created a unique paper-cut art, which she called "Xiao Sang Paper-cut." Her style of paper-cut preserves ...
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