BERLIN — Visitors to downtown Berlin have the chance to create a truly unique keepsake this holiday season. For the past several years, Jeffrey Auxer Designs has hosted ornament-making classes. “I came up with the idea to ...
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National Jute Board (NJB) is actively engaged in market development of jute products and as part of its promotional activity, a ‘jute festival’ is being organized at Chennai. Nearly 35 jute entrepreneurs from different states ...
The President Shri Pranab Mukherjee will present the Shilp Guru Award and Sant Kabir Award for the year 2009 and 2010 to twenty Handicrafts Artisans and eighteen Master weavers in Vigyan Bhawan here tomorrow. Besides this, he will also ...
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A unique textile exhibition, displaying the largest-ever collection of ancient Mayan textile crafts, is going on at the New World Center Maya Textiles (CTMM), located inside the former Convent of Santo Domingo de San Cristobal de las Casas ...
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The Corning Museum of Glass today unveiled its 2012 Rakow Commission work:Flower Blockby Danish artist Steffen Dam.The artist's most ambitious work to date,Flower Blockis a grouping of 24 glass blocks in the style of his well-known series ...
Barnes & Noble has removed PIN pad devices from all of its nearly 700 stores nationwide as a precaution after detecting evidence of tampering with the devices at 63 of its stores in eight states. It a statement Wednesday, the company ...
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The Ahmedabad, Gujarat-based National Institute of Design (NID), which is internationally acclaimed as one of the finest educational and research institutions for Industrial, Communication, Textile and IT Integrated (Experiential) Design, ...
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The Philippine Embassy in Jakarta reported to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) that the Philippines participated with flair at the International Embroidery Festival 2012 organized by the National Crafts Council of Indonesia. ...
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(China Glass Network) The high productivity of glass industry brings excess capacity. The glass industry steps in positive situation of supply-exceed-demand. De-stocking is now the most significant thing in glass industry. Along with ...
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WOODWORKING is a tricky skill to master. Students learn to measure carefully before they reach for a saw, and to cut as true to the design as hand and eye allow. But, even so, precise cutting is a painstaking job, full of pitfalls and ...
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Paperworld China 2012, Asia’s largest trade fair for stationery and office supply products, will be held from 19 – 21 September 2012 at Shanghai New International Expo Centre, China.The show, organised by Messe Frankfurt ...
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Some of the most interesting pieces of China furniture can be found during the imperial Qing Dynasty. This is the period in China's history when the country was opened up to cultural, political, economic and social interaction with the ...
Museum of Glass of Qinhuangdao held a grand opening ceremony recently.As the first state-owned thematic museum,it covers an area of 11.25 mu with overall floorage of 2822 square meters.The museum is composed of four parts including ...
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Glass bottle now began to return to the mainstream of packaging market.As food,beverage,wine bottles began to occupy high-end market,consumers begin to pay more attention to the quality of life.Glass bottle became preferred packing choice ...
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DoD contracts round-up:summer 2012 23 Aug 2012 Substantial backing for optical countermeasure and multispectral targeting systems,including a$463million agreement with Northrop Grumman. MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter The US Department of ...
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