The talented craftsmen of Sialkot made bats from local birch.
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We authentic craftsmen look at those wannabe trendsetters with pity.
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A dedicated group of Tokyo craftsmen saved it from extinction.
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Craftsmen apply an herbal solution that repels rats and insects.
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"We are thinking of making a school for craftsmen," Samman said.
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Downes said France would have an easier time than Britain finding the skilled craftsmen for the job, because it could draw on the Compagnons du Tour, made up of thousands of highly skilled craftsmen in traditional construction.
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After all, they are the craftsmen that work with the materials daily.
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But they were craftsmen, rather than figures who were creating the songs.
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Creative freedom and imaginative play are unaffordable luxuries for these skilled craftsmen.
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Who are some of the culinary craftsmen out there that you admire?
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"The people who build jeepneys are really experienced craftsmen," Mr. Lao said.
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Now, it's seeing new life among a dedicated group of Tokyo craftsmen.
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"Often, master craftsmen toil tucked away in their territories," Mr. Cavalli said.
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She'd been working on a book about sixteenth- and seventeenth-century craftsmen.
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The house's craftsmen have, Jones said, changed how he thinks about clothes.
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The team has been working with Guatemalan craftsmen for the last seven years.
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It has involved a team of nearly 300 craftsmen skilled in traditional techniques.
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I'm rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen.
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About 40 craftsmen and womenwere involved in a specialty apprenticeship program in upholstery.
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"For the last two years, I've been visiting producers and craftsmen," he says.
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We worked with craftsmen to develop hand-turned wood heels and tufting details.
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Its first floor is ready to be fixed in place, the craftsmen said.
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Coopers were valued craftsmen in colonial America and into the postindependence expansion westward.
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My father comes from a family of wood craftsmen and became a chiropractor.
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In jewelry, craftsmen, setters, polishers and designers are hierarchically at the same level.
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My art space used to be a factory belonging to old Japanese craftsmen.
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The cabinetry and ironwork details throughout the home were created by local craftsmen.
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"We are using master craftsmen at their peak of their trade," she said.
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Diaz-Azcuy selected craftsmen from around the world to provide materials and finishes.
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It took thousands of workers, including hundreds of Amish craftsmen, 24 months to build.
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The midcentury-style bed and desk were white oak made locally by Amish craftsmen.
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This was a time when artists were traditionally anonymous, uneducated craftsmen of "pretty things".
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Craftsmen made gold jewellery, as well as life-sized stone figures to guard their settlements.
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How can we feel like craftsmen when we're scrabbling in the dark with unfamiliar tech?
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Fully customizable paper notebooks that are hand-bound by craftsmen (and women) in the store.
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The instruments Eastman produces are handcrafted by craftsmen who take years to hone their skills.
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" She noted the region's "incredible craftsmen that specialize in bringing these properties back to life.
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He met with farmers, chefs, and other craftsmen, determined to preserve decades-old Japanese traditions.
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Built by French and Italian craftsmen, the hotel rivaled those in Europe and New York.
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"The high price-point of luxury is what appeals to these counterfeit craftsmen," said Powell.
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The guys at Janus don't question Amish values, because those craftsmen are perfect production partners.
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The roofs of the Craftsmen sagged, the shingles mostly gone or dangling like dead skin.
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"Taro is a little eccentric, and Platinum are a bunch of really hardcore craftsmen," says Saito.
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If something more casual better suits your style, the fine craftsmen of Etsy can help you.
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It's a tribute to the craftsmen who made those great original versions and [to] the songwriting.
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It took a team of 14 craftsmen working for over 1,700 hours to create the masterpiece.
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At Brioni, O'Shea will be afforded access to some of the finest craftsmen in the industry.
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For their fashion shows in Addis Ababa, they used shoes and accessories created by local craftsmen.
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He also worked with houses and craftsmen like Roger Scemama, Paul Caillol, Gripoix and Robert Goossens.
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Some online retailers, however, prefer to strike out on their own, like the craftsmen of old.
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To motivate my craftsmen, I tell them it should be mesmerizing when you look at it.
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I kind of think that some of the best craftsmen are masters of hiding their craftsmanship.
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The Smith: the patron of laborers and craftsmen, often sought out when work needs to be done.
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We have lots of talented, resourceful people who live here—real craftsmen and just good, solid people.
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The festival highlights opportunities to meet and talk with craftsmen who work in traditional Viking-era methods.
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Tuscan craftsmen specializing in stainless steel produced this double scythe-like knife for cutting and serving watermelon.
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Karlie Kloss reclined on a table surrounded by craftsmen, who worked to transform leather into a dress.
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Walking through it, the sounds of workshop machinery and craftsmen striking hammers become a nearly musical backdrop.
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Many of the motorcycles' major components, including frames and bodywork, are manufactured and painted by Amish craftsmen.
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They grew corn and squash, built monumental adobe temples and were master craftsmen in gold and ceramics.
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All great craftsmen and women have had to endure the low pay and hard work of apprenticeship.
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"Eugene is Mecca for those kind of crafts, and [the local craftsmen] do very well," according to LaRiccia.
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Machines either pushed craftsmen out of the labor market completely, or encouraged employers to decrease their workers' wages.
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"Eugene is Mecca for those kind of crafts, and [the local craftsmen] do very well," according to LaRiccia.
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It took 15 craftsmen from West Bengal, working 16-hour days, more than two weeks to create it.
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In this scenario, many blacks who, as slaves, had acquired skills as craftsmen began to set up businesses.
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Fiona and I spend our afternoons wandering these cracked sidewalks, peeking in the windows of old Tacoma craftsmen.
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"They were very fine craftsmen, so I'm sure they would have been very good at tattooing," Antoine said.
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"They were very fine craftsmen, so I'm sure they would have been very good at tattooing," says Antoine.
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Skilled craftsmen and tradespeople and factory workers have seen the jobs they loved shipped thousands of miles away.
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Not to mention, the state has a tremendously skilled workforce of crew members, craftsmen and technicians working on sets.
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Local craftsmen, like Tailor Toyo, would refashion traditional fabrics into baseball jackets, which were commonly worn by American soldiers.
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Long known as an enterprising people, Syrians are renowned as merchants, craftsmen and tradesmen, with a highly skilled workforce.
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Once complete, the parts are shipped to dental laboratories all over Europe where craftsmen add a layer of porcelain.
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The opulent oasis includes three individual suites and two ballrooms, which took years and hundreds of craftsmen to restore.
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To tackle the renovation — which took nine months — Glazman, Roytberg and Janowicz teamed up with local craftsmen and builders.
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On this road to becoming a sushi itamae, or shokunin (expert craftsmen), there is no classroom but the kitchen.
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But it's amazing how quickly the traffic of the stage passes when you're in the hands of expert craftsmen.
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Polly Fern, a ceramist with the New Craftsmen, creates platters and vases that reinterpret the Victorian tradition of transferware.
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Designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana paid tribute to artisans and craftsmen with the collection titled "Made by Hand".
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Designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana paid tribute to artisans and craftsmen with the collection titled "Made by Hand".
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The pattern of the exterior panels is designed to evoke ornate ironwork created by enslaved craftsmen in New Orleans.
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To bring an older apartment or house back to its original glory, you'll need a team of expert craftsmen.
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Some even strapped tool belts to their waists and pretended to be craftsmen, disguising newspapers under their thick clothes.
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But scientists in that age accepted that they needed to be engineers and craftsmen, as well as jugglers of equations.
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"The gorgeous house features parque de Versailles floors throughout, that were created and installed by French craftsmen," the source continues.
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Mikan, Russell, Kareem, Jordan, Lebron, Curry, they're more than just craftsmen who give their all to a broader spectrum effort.
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Italian craftsmen arrived in the early 19th century and many adapted their skills after the diamond rush in South Africa.
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The furniture is included in the price; many of the pieces were created specifically for the house by local craftsmen.
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Employees of all ages, including the 90 master craftsmen and women of Shizukuishi, mill about in the various production rooms.
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At the marina, beneath a forest of wooden masts, a couple of craftsmen whittle and plane away at their boat.
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In seventh-century Syria, craftsmen made glass perfume flasks shaped like camels and lions, which still inspire modern-day diffusers.
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Once the client is 100 percent happy with the design, one of my craftsmen creates a wax or silver model.
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There are so many people who want to know about Japan, Japanese culture, craftsmen but there is no connection between.
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That sort of language can alienate people, like low-rider painters or craftsmen, who might not see themselves as artists.
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In the past black actors, directors, producers and craftsmen have been deservedly nominated for and won Oscars, not, as the Rev.
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However, the bigger issue is there are not enough trained seamstresses or craftsmen in the U.S. to fill demand, Hertzman said.
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He is also known for engaging local artists and craftsmen in site-specific installations that preserve memory and promote sustainable development.
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Woodman, who was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, in 1930, enrolled at the School for American Craftsmen at Alfred University in 20023.
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Kangxi was not above a little supervision of his own, peering over the shoulders of his craftsmen to inspect his trinkets.
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He lacks a core electorate, but managed to mobilise the urban lower-middle class—traders, taxi-drivers, craftsmen—who rarely vote.
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"The Damien Hirst work does mirror that of the Ife craftsmen of the early 14th-15th Century," the SOAS statement read.
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Basically the craftsmen and women at Rolls-Royce's Goodwood production facility have turned "murdering out" a ride into an art form.
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Skilled craftsmen will use the latest steel, valve, monitoring and other technologies to build the Keystone XL segment and prevent spills.
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The light display features luminarie light sculptures handmade by Italian craftsmen, a luminarie mirror maze, and Asia's tallest luminarie Christmas tree.
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"All of those traditional markets, like craftsmen and sake makers don't really open doors that easily to the public," Nakata says.
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In other words, we need to create agile and malleable life-long learners, not "set-in-their ways" craftsmen and women.
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It was a chance to visit a unique place in history and see the work of craftsmen with real know-how.
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The barrel is sawed from the handle, sliced vertically into thin blocks then sanded by craftsmen into the shape of chopsticks.
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The Labor Department has fined Craftsmen Group three times for health and safety violations — twice in 2011 and once in 2007.
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Furniture, tapestries, paintings, textiles, coat hangers and even membership cards were produced by craftsmen in northern Italy to Depero's precise specifications.
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Mr. Friedman said he liked the idea of a return to the old days, when craftsmen often lived where they worked.
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There are white signs nailed up outside the Village Craftsmen showing the high-water mark of storms going back to 1985.
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Today, all over world, craftsmen are disappearing -- not because they are losing their value but because people don't know about them.
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But the specialist set designer was slow to emerge, and the work was undertaken by, variously, painters, craftsmen, and actor-managers.
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It's quieter than his food shows; he's just highlighting master craftsmen, but his awe and appreciation of their skill is palpable.
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"Star Wars" was made with evident care by master craftsmen — Ralph McQuarrie, John Dykstra, Ben Burtt and John Williams, among others.
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We do not know with which purpose the craftsmen drew this symbol on the pitcher, but we call it a smile.
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The Paul Bond Boots shop that has made the traditional custom boots of classic Western films is staffed by Mexican craftsmen.
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I began by trying to make the most basic tools, like mason's chisels, by copying the ones these skilled craftsmen had made.
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The best of the craftsmen and designers from his large jewelry manufacturing business were moved to the Nirav Modi workshop in Mumbai.
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Because they were forged by Japanese craftsmen just for his clientele, he had to wait four years to obtain enough of them.
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The palace was surrounded by a network of artisans and craftsmen called the Ehl-i-Heref, or The Community of the Talented.
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The flurry of wins brought a parade of Australian craftsmen onstage, including sound editor Mark Mangini, who celebrated with a loud expletive.
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The panels, which arrived in 18 large boxes, were reworked by craftsmen and installed at Catherine Palace, the imperial family's summer retreat.
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"It's a great look," jokes Taylor, who tries out a word or two of Spanish on the Dominican craftsmen, to little effect.
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The subjects range from unnamed laborers and craftsmen to babies and other children posing for their first photos to President Zachary Taylor.
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The subjects range from unnamed laborers and craftsmen to babies and other children posing for their first photos to President Zachary Taylor.
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Now, the couple and Maharam are uniting to introduce a line of housewares and accessories created in collaboration with several Japanese craftsmen.
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There is a subdued dining room opposite, with a more Japanese aesthetic reflected in gleaming dark lacquer and tableware by Japanese craftsmen.
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They do not see craftsmen anymore, because the studios have relocated to cheaper parts of the cities, outside of the residential areas.
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These rural places were once intricately tied to the countryside around them, their inhabitants working as farmers and merchants, craftsmen and shepherds.
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The 15 meter (50 foot) vessel was built by Makassan craftsmen on a beach in Sulawesi using traditional methods and local timber.
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The hand-crafted rings, made in New York City by craftsmen with more than 25 years of experience, come in four styles.
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Amazingly, the owners never wavered; the woman from Monaco became her own general contractor, overseeing a platoon of craftsmen at every step.
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Scores of patients would come in who previously had no access to care — productive members of society — artists, craftsmen, service industry members.
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" Along with an earlier wave of English and Scottish craftsmen, she said, these Jewish immigrants "had the largest impact on the town.
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Craftsmen whose skills took years to hone suddenly found themselves being replaced by machines operated by workers with just a few months' training.
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They include supermarket cashiers, construction workers, janitors, carpenters, electricians, mechanics, plumbers, iron workers, craftsmen, operating engineers, fast-food workers ... the list goes on.
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The bookmaking team would have consisted of prickers, a scribe, draftsmen, and painters, and pages reveal instructions left by craftsmen for one another.
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In contrast, white guy rappers subjected to criticism have been able to mostly withstand widespread castigation by finding niches and becoming expert craftsmen.
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Later, as a member of the Peace Corp in Sierra Leone, watching African craftsmen at work encouraged him to return to 3D forms.
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Much of this ornamentation was made by Armenian craftsmen, many of whom perished during the 823 genocide, which Turkey has yet to recognize.
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Now, online competition and rocketing rents have put the craftsmen under pressure, cutting footfall to retailers and forcing some to consider shutting altogether.
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Like so many of the characters in "The Children's Book", a novel she published in 2009, both Morris and Fortuny were artist-craftsmen.
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"I think it's just something that the guys in the truck enjoy doing," Keegan Bradley said, referring to the equipment craftsmen like Dill.
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When the few seams of the world's more exotic marbles were exhausted, 18th-century architects had craftsmen all over Europe paint the equivalent.
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So you've been going around the world, finding these different craftsmen, seeing their stories, and many of them are kind of dying trades.
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When onlookers watch something being made by highly skilled craftsmen, it helps them form a deeper appreciation of the objects in their world.
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For Kuma, the scale of the place has meant fewer impediments to his true passions: working with local craftsmen and using local materials.
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And workers on the site, including one Craftsmen Group employee, told POLITICO that they and others aren't receiving pay rates mandated by law.
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Sketches and templates for the stained glass emphasize the labor of production — labor that required an army of designers, craftsmen, and, frequently, craftswomen.
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At the Village Craftsmen, a native-owned gift store in operation for 40 years, lines are marked with the names of previous hurricanes.
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They attract legitimate funds from governments and private investors, and they require frequent payouts to legitimate subcontractors: cement factories, lumberyards, glass manufacturers, craftsmen.
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"We ride functional art, (boards) hand-crafted in those days by really skilled craftsmen," said Ford, who had never had the collection valued.
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There are few modern rock craftsmen comparable to Thom Yorke, and few bands whose rockist flag waves more consistently than that of Radiohead.
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Today they exist in complacent isolation, and can only be rescued from it by the conscious co-operation and collaboration of all craftsmen.
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And hundreds of craftsmen work on your Rolls-Royce before it leaves the production facility in Goodwood, England, so the prices are eye-watering.
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Just like early spinning machines took the jobs of middle-income craftsmen, industrial robots have more recently diminished opportunities for the American middle class.
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He was also named among the best craftsmen in France in 1976 and holder of the most Michelin stars in the world for years.
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In Afghanistan, FAO is helping the government set up a GI system to help the country's farmers and craftsmen recover from decades of war.
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WUPPERTAL, Germany (Reuters) - For more than 130 years, Knipex, a family-owned company in western Germany, has made pliers for craftsmen around the world.
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Your mug was fired in an ancient kiln by the finest craftsmen, and it currently contains loose-leaf turmeric tea that you made YOURSELF.
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African sculptural masterpieces by anonymous craftsmen mingle with Manets, and shining pieces of 18th- and 19th-century metalwork are thrown in for good measure.
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But it took 25 craftsmen to shape and cut the stupendous metal structure with its 3,000 mouth-blown crystal pieces, Mr. de Lavergnolle said.
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Once home to traditional craftsmen and artisan studios, the neighborhood has recently evolved into a hub of small galleries, design studios and independent boutiques.
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By contrast, in the Sarah Myerscough Gallery, British artists with a rarefied sensibility using exotic techniques reinterpreted woods that craftsmen have worked for centuries.
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Of City Island's roughly 22020,210 residents, over 9 are artists and craftsmen, and a cluster of galleries populate the midsection of City Island Avenue.
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But hers is the hand that brings the furniture together, working in Paris with ébénistes, or craftsmen, and with other specialists for specific materials.
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WHEELDON I think we are all craftsmen, we are passionate about ballet technique and vocabulary, and there is so much there to be mined.
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These dark-wooded, lattice-fronted structures once housed craftsmen and merchants and are today being scrupulously restored for use as shops, restaurants and inns.
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In addition to meeting local Tongan traders and craftsmen and women, Meghan and Harry learned about handicrafts and products, including traditional mats and "tapa" cloth.
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They were initially used by master craftsmen who sought to prevent freshly graduated apprentices from setting up shop in the same town where they'd trained.
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Large orders from companies such as Laura Ashley, a Malaysian-owned firm, or Crate & Barrel, an American interior-furnishings chain, poured in to Jodhpur's craftsmen.
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I see us as craftsmen along with the guy who does the lights and the guy who edits and the guy who pushes the dolly.
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All of the old craftsmen were tossed off the ship, left to drown in the tide of perpetual blathering nonsense they fought so valiantly against.
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He now runs the Software Carpentry Foundation, an international charity, but has not yet succeeded in turning the majority of computing's academic bodgers into craftsmen.
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Today Mr Fazioli's factory—more accurately, a hall filled with craftsmen and their tools—runs at full capacity, turning out 26 grand pianos a year.
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But McEwan, aside from being one of the most accomplished craftsmen of plot and prose, also happens to be a deeply provocative writer about science.
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If there were a fair every month where such events could take place then it'd be an ideal place for artists, craftsmen, musicians, singers, etc.
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In 2010, intending to spotlight its heritage and exceptional savoir-faire, the mint began asking the best craftsmen in France to produce limited-edition coins.
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The kitchen has a propane stove, farmhouse sink and cabinets built by local Mennonite craftsmen; the breakfast area includes a built-in table and bench.
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IN 2003, the then-young award for Best Animated Feature was used to recognize one of animation's greatest craftsmen for one of his crowning achievements.
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"The master craftsmen at this workshop are doing filigree work and engraving just as their predecessors would have done 150 years ago," Mr. Burton said.
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The 177-year-old tower has been swathed in scaffolding for the past three years as craftsmen refurbish its stonework and famous 12-tonne clock.
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Brought together by basket maker Hilary Burns on behalf of the London shop the New Craftsmen, they convey a rural history of the British Isles.
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Jordan Nassar's gorgeous hand-embroidered canvases marry the technical skill of a master craftsmen with the poetic eye for color and geometry of Etel Adnan.
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"Social enterprise need not mean poor quality: our craftsmen come from Prada and Vuitton, we're just cheaper because we don't have supermodels or shareholders," she smiled.
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This also spurred protest from the labor unions of skilled craftsmen, as there was less demand for their intensive set-building work as in the past.
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Click here to view original GIFSucks to be anyone who enters a Halloween costume contest and finds themselves up against the ridiculously talented craftsmen at LoveProps.
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The tyres are decorated with 24-carat gold leaf work, done by the same craftsmen who are working on a new presidential palace in Abu Dhabi.
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Like the great craftsmen of the Renaissance period, Zak went on a directionless journey and apprenticed with European and Middle Eastern artisans to learn his craft.
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Three craftsmen were needed to create a manuscript: one for the words, another for the proofreading and a third to dash in the delicate intonation markings.
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Shelled during the civil war, the grand 19th-century Bechara el-Khoury (formerly a residence) is now a workshop where local and refugee Syrian craftsmen work.
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Last week, the government announced the discovery of an ancient industrial district in the nearby Valley of the Monkeys, where craftsmen produced decorations for royal tombs.
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Craftsmen at Lowther's workshop painstakingly apply 15 layers of extracted tree sap to every piece, sanding between the coats to achieve an impeccable high-gloss finish.
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It is the cobbled-together work of two different craftsmen—one on the brink of death and the other not even American—and it is ugly.
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Ms. Bourre said the Lord & Taylor windows were created by nearly 75 artists, craftsmen and engineers who put in more than 35,000 hours on the project.
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Ms. Fabián, 30, started her continuing project in 2011, when she began a documentary on the craftsmen who make Yalálag's distinctive huaraches, like her grandfather did.
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And it has been complicated by the fact that the craftsmen who render her designs are in Switzerland and Paris, so communication is not always straightforward.
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Jeanne Boivin hung onto the salon's relationships with the high-quality craftsmen and fabricators in the Paris workshops that her husband had cultivated before his death.
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The Labor Department confirmed to POLITICO that it's looking into allegations of wage-rule violations by the Craftsmen Group, a Trump Organization subcontractor that restores windows.
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It moved to its current location in 1940 and now handles a few thousand pairs of shoes at a time, with the help of 10 craftsmen.
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Ibrahim Nahlas, 55, a renowned master craftsman from Aleppo who sells his wares across the Middle East, said he had longstanding business ties with Turkish craftsmen.
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In workshops around San Francisco and Hawaii, craftsmen and technologists are hooking hydrofoils — a lifting surface attached to the bottom of a watercraft — onto seemingly everything.
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They emerged in a variety of materials including ivory, which allowed craftsmen to carve handles into a wide range of subjects rendered with extraordinary great detail.
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We call to arms our fellow craftsmen and women to go deeper and through our hearts battle against fear, self-centeredness, exclusivity of our predominantly narcissistic culture.
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The custom La Perla design featured 85,000 hand-painted crystals and took over 160 hours to make, spanning 5 cities and 26 craftsmen, according to the brand.
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Having the business in Japan and working with the craftsmen has helped me identify my Asian side, and it's helped me feel more positive about it, certainly.
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The custom La Perla design featured 85,000 hand-painted crystals and took over 160 hours to make, spanning five cities and 26 craftsmen, according to the brand.
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The custom La Perla design features 85,000 hand-painted crystals and took over 160 hours to make, spanning 5 cities and 26 craftsmen, according to the brand.
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At its best, the show's pleasure comes looking into a world of master craftsmen, a place that you don't usually get to visit, right from your computer.
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Another of the Negro craftsmen [...] was so useful that when the man was thrown in jail for drunkenness, Lopez paid his fine and put him to work.
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Now it seems he's worked with King's Landing artillery craftsmen to perfect a surface-to-air crossbow to serve as the backbone of Cersei's Dragon Defense Initiative.
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"In the history of decorative arts, the focus has too often been on the value of stones rather than the work of the craftsmen," Mr. Loyrette said.
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Originally a collective of leather craftsmen, the house expanded in 2646, when Jonathan Anderson was named creative director, and has since gained fashion (and presumably financial) traction.
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Paracho soon gained fame as Mexico's capital for the manufacture of stringed instruments, and "Coco" has now brought its craftsmen global fame and booming sales, artisans said.
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There are only a few craftsmen left in Cuba who know how to bend the neon tubes into letters and fill them with gas to create different colors.
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But for Tuesday night's Fourth of July performance, Stamos debuted a brand new red, white and blue maple drum kit, custom made for him by craftsmen at Ludwig.
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Stanley Black & Decker announced that it will shift manufacturing of Craftsmen wrenches from overseas to a new plant in Fort Worth, Texas, which explains the rally, Cramer said.
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The fishermen, farmers, and craftsmen who worked steadily in Hokusai's prints have been replaced by bus drivers on their breaks, hikers, street cleaners, and people playing mini golf.
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Working with expert craftsmen, Arbore is able to make whimsical feline dreams come true and help animals everywhere by donating 10% of Square Paws proceeds to animal rescues.
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We are craftsmen and our goal is to create good food, just like the designer has to create beautiful clothes or Ferrari has to create a fast car.
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Maria, who trained in the classic manner as a goldsmith, also has a team of craftsmen working closely with her in the company's headquarters on the city's outskirts.
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The items in the shop are a collaboration between designers and Roma craftsmen and women, and are part of an effort to improve the economics of the community.
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In 17th- and 18th-century Britain, big merchants got the state to grant them monopolies over trade in particular goods, forcing small craftsmen to submit to their regulations.
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When craftsmen completed Liberty's head in 1878, that too was exhibited, at the third Paris World's Fair on the Champ-de-Mars esplanade, complete with a souvenir stand.
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"The earliest generation of black classical composers has been succeeded by a larger group of talented craftsmen," he wrote in a 21968 essay in The New York Times.
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To me, they offer the special pleasure of eavesdropping on master craftsmen, their jargon and shorthand implying an entire world of shared knowledge lying just below the surface.
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Yang apprenticed with a leather craftsman in New York and then shared what she learned with Bangladeshi leather craftsmen to help elevate their work to the luxury level.
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They operate out of weaving epicenters like Turkey and India, where craftsmen still preserve their cultural legacies through the rug-making techniques that have been perfected over centuries.
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Each episode — hosted by Wil Willis, an expert on weapons and a veteran of the U.S. Army and Air Force — puts a group of craftsmen to the test.
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Mr. Ávalos, from a family of firework craftsmen including his father and grandfather, said the craft remained his passion, even with all of the damage it had wrought.
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Earlier craftsmen like Jacob Mark, who manufactured manhole covers with a six-sided star pattern embedded with colored glass, also have their names linked to this metal medium.
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As ever, the paradox of Mr. Verhoeven's style is that it seems to wallow in tastelessness and transgression even as he remains one of the most classical movie craftsmen.
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"We call to arms our fellow craftsmen and women to go deeper and through our hearts battle against fear, self-centeredness, exclusivity of our predominantly narcissistic culture," he said.
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The album moves with the confidence of master craftsmen suddenly reminded of how much they love what they do; you can hear their delight to finally make music again.
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Costing a princely $2,500, these are Pioneer's very best headphones and they're assembled by hand in Japan with all the obsessive care that the country's craftsmen are famous for.
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His 2012 books were made in the stone-carving tradition of Afghan Hazari craftsmen with stone quarried from the Bamiyan Valley, where the Taliban destroyed Buddha statues in 2001.
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Villages like Muyil are offering tours such as floating down fresh-water canals dug by the Mayas, visiting local pre-Hispanic ruins, seeing local craftsmen and sampling regional foods.
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The Marvel universe lost one of its most influential craftsmen with the recent death of Spider-Man and Doctor Strange co-creator Steve Ditko at the age of 90.
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Over 3,000 years ago the craftsmen of Ramses III, while building the tombs of pharaohs in the Valley of the Kings, laid down their hammers and demanded more food.
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His skill at drawing with charcoal earned him a place at the Sudan School for Craftsmen (now the National Arts Institute), where he was trained as a jewelry maker.
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He always brings the best out of the artists and craftsmen around him, but there was a level of devotion to this particular show that I'd never seen before.
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It indicates that the craftsmen of a golfer's club of choice are willing to take the time to customize something out of the ordinary, to be put on display.
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"And then there's people who need to plaster the interior walls as well and lay the floors - and slave craftsmen were involved with all of those steps," Hallock added.
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The 23 suites and 19503 rooms, many with private terraces overlooking the garden or the sea, showcase wood furniture by island craftsmen and floors made of renowned Brac marble.
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"You have a visceral reaction when you hold her pieces," says Catherine Lock, creative director of the New Craftsmen, the artisan-focused Mayfair design shop that carries Hirai's work.
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THE NEW CRAFTSMEN, which opened in 2012, has sought to create a bigger market for both the aesthetic of handmade crafts as well as the traditional skills behind them.
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This is just one stop on the informal art trail in Mogo, a 19th-century gold-mining town that, despite its population of just 322, is rich with craftsmen.
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The Luddites were, for the most part, not proletarians but skilled craftsmen, weavers who constituted s sort of labor aristocracy but found their skills devalued by the power loom.
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Several pieces are sourced from the New Craftsmen, a Mayfair store that champions British furniture and décor: The long elm trestle table is by Gareth Neal; a modern riff on the Orkney chair, made of woven willow, is by Neal and the basket maker Annemarie O'Sullivan; the dining chairs and a green-lacquered settle bench in the study area are by the British stylist and designer Sue Skeen in collaboration with the New Craftsmen.
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Craftsmen from an array of industries, who once saw themselves as separate, as cobblers or bricklayers, began to see themselves as sharing a larger, common character: They were all workers.
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Andretta plans to stress that the brand has dozens of craftsmen available to repair bags, a service only a few luxury labels offer such as Hermes and LVMH's Louis Vuitton.
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But, as a group of culinary craftsmen have recently discovered, finding a way to ditch artificial flavors and colors while mimicking that magically delicious taste might require, well, actual magic.
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And if there's something magical about driving an Italian supercar in Italy, that sensation trebles when you're in a car that was built by Italian craftsmen decades upon decades ago.
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With his phalanx of craftsmen, he helped Agnelli with the Villa Frescot in Turin, the home in St. Moritz in collaboration with Gae Aulenti and an apartment on Park Avenue.
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"Working with other small craftsmen within the Hudson Valley, it's just something that benefits us, benefits other small businesses," said Mike Love, who owns Coffee Labs with his wife, Alicia.
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Since at least as far back as the 1950s, mask-making in Africa has been a big industry in which craftsmen produce artificially aged new masks for a worldwide market.
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And there are temporary exhibitions, such as "Skin: The Surface of the Jewel," until May 1, which features 77 artists and craftsmen exploring the interaction between jewelry and the body.
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In the 212s, her team of craftsmen, regarded among the most talented in Paris, doubted whether her sketch for a platinum cigarette case covered with diamonds could be successfully realized.
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But in 2011, when the adjacent apartment became available, she bought it, renovated the kitchen and hired local craftsmen to restore the original parquet floors and carved wood spiral staircase.
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Ghost stories belong to — brace yourself for maximum Fiedlerian venom — "middlebrow craftsmen," who will peddle them to a rapidly dwindling audience and into an extinction that can't come soon enough.
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In Vienna in the early 19003s, a last gasp of artisanal furniture and homewares emerged from a new kind of workshop, in which artists and craftsmen worked side by side.
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In Marrakesh, inspired by the diversity and expertise of local craftsmen, she began sketching rug designs for weavers and cutting patterns for nude leather bags and suede and raffia sandals.
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Even then it was usually only to sing the praises of his forebears or the talented craftsmen and designers who had worked for him, while playing down his own talents.
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He explained that making a single Collings guitar takes about 123 craftsmen more than 212 days working in a climate-controlled plant in Austin (temperature 230 degrees, humidity 21 percent).
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Castle taught at the School for American Craftsmen at the Rochester Institute of Technology, which announced his death, from 21950 to 21960, and later returned as an artist-in-residence.
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Master tailor Badshah Khan said his craftsmen are particularly busy because many people are also having special outfits made to celebrate Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the month.
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A hole has been knocked in the concrete wall—as if by craftsmen, not bombs—and through the passage sits a large open room packed with tools and half-assembled ordnance.
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Playwriting is not a lucrative business, and teaching can be tedious, so it makes sense that many of the best craftsmen are lured to Hollywood on the promise of better pay.
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Gunmaking in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries connected craftsmen from multiple industries—woodworkers, lockmakers, engravers, to name a few—which meant that when new manufacturing techniques were developed, they spread quickly.
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In May, they revamped the store to include a studio space where interior designers and individuals can meet with any maker in the New Craftsmen stable to collaborate on custom projects.
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For most of his career, McPhee has written reverently about athletes, canoebuilders and craftsmen — methodical, somewhat solitary men (mostly) who work with their hands and take quiet pride in their work.
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Some of them are the grandchildren of Mario Buccellati's craftsmen; some work in the business's atelier in a 1970s-era building in Milan or from their home workshops in the area.
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Just across the street from Zakhar Zakharich lies Dry Bridge, where collectors, antique vendors and craftsmen set up shop for the Dry Bridge Flea Market, a scavenger's wonderland of Perestroika plunder.
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In 2005, it was gutted and fully refurbished by local craftsmen using wood from an old ferme d'alpage, or alpine farmhouse, said Jean Blower, who owns the home with her husband.
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If you came up in our generation of musicians, you were mentored by the great craftsmen of how do you make a show move, how do you make a show go.
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At the Venice Biennale in 2008, the architects and Mr. Ai presented "Mock Up, Beijing," a hybrid form of art and architecture for which Chinese craftsmen mounted chairs on bamboo poles.
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The historically wealthier neighborhoods north of the Forbidden City spoke with an accent considered more refined than that found in the poorer neighborhoods to the south, home to craftsmen and performers.
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Earlier this year, house craftsmen remounted an important octagonal emerald that could be traced to Catherine, Empress of Russia, who had it set in the brow band of her horse's bridle.
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But the actual advent of the solid-body electric guitar, sometime in the 1940s, was a tangled tale of tinkerers, craftsmen, musicians and businessmen who hardly realized what they had unleashed.
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Craftsmen, to give another example, also designed one particularly ornate set of bronze bells that chime beautiful notes, meant to guide dance performances that would keep the elite entertained in the afterlife.
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"What's so unique about Dharavi is that it's right in the middle of this big city, and there are businesses and craftsmen, some running their family businesses for four generations," said Pinatih.
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But it also needs the skills of Aleppo craftsmen, many of whom left the city during the war, some killed, others departing with the rebels or starting new lives as refugees abroad.
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One of the craftsmen who might help set up that school is Mustafa al-Now, a worker in the ornate, painted wood panels, windows, doors and ceilings that adorn old Aleppo houses.
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Each person in every group was given about $214 to learn a skilled trade, with the goal of becoming craftsmen — which craft exactly varied from group to group — with higher earning potential.
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The powerful mystique of the samurai sword Literally translated as "period dramas," they portray the daily lives of samurai, farmers, ninjas, merchants and craftsmen during Japan's Edo period between 1603 and 1868.
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Nearly all of those participating in the show in Washington are young people, some of them recent graduates; while they were trained by elder craftsmen, they have no fear of the new.
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If I really love a book, I will get a copy specially bound either by one of my craftsmen or I'll find a binder somewhere in the world if we're too busy.
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Mikimoto, the Japanese house known for its use of pearls, offered up Jeux de Rubans, a celebration of ribbons with flowing, fluid pieces that showed the ingenuity of its Tokyo-based craftsmen.
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Amazon opened its conference, titled Amazon SMBhav (Hindi for possible), with videos of poor merchants and craftsmen in India who have expanded their businesses after signing up on the e-commerce platform.
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The goal is to help science historians understand the materials that craftsmen used centuries ago, as well as the technologies and techniques that were available at the dawn of the scientific revolution.
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Historically a working-class neighborhood of the city, home to workers and craftsmen, the Batignolles also attracted famous artists, including the writers Paul Verlaine and Emile Zola and the painter Edouard Manet.
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The walls are covered in soft-white Japanese shikkui plaster, which was carefully applied by trained craftsmen — though it is smooth to the touch, their strokes glint unevenly in the natural light.
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After buying the estate, which sits on 1,000 hectares, or 2,470 acres, he built the main house from scratch, commissioning about 100 Moroccan craftsmen to work for eight months on the wood paneling.
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They are craftsmen, aficionados of rap for the sake of rap, guys who above all want to make the coolest rap music they can (we can safely say this about Jay again, finally).
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Given that yeasts have a long history of being used to ferment food and drink, archaeologists have argued for years that early craftsmen may have selectively bred yeast strains without even realising it.
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The young craftsmen, wearing hoodies and working around Mr. Pesce at three wide tables in the center of the raw, lofty space, poured resins into molds that shaped strange, colorful, rubbery household objects.
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The building's shape was inspired by the three-tiered crown atop a Yoruban Caryatid, with the crown panels reminiscent of the wrought iron designs created by enslaved craftsmen in 53th-century New Orleans.
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Larsson's grandfather, a craftsmen and designer, began a partnership in the 1930s with Frank, whose rustic, minimal wicker sofas and chairs she continues to produce for the famed Stockholm design emporium Svenskt Tenn.
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On Ngong Road in Nairobi, Kenya's bustling capital, the traffic is hemmed in by craftsmen building and selling furniture, plant pots, giant metal animals and children's climbing frames, in garish greens, reds and yellows.
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In an earlier period, Roman landmarks would have been constructed on a set by highly skilled craftsmen, but shooting Rome for Rome elevates the story and opens up greater possibilities in cinematography and directing.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla (Reuters) - When U.S. manufacturing employment peaked, Jimmy Carter was president, inflation was 11 percent, and craftsmen at Frontier Contact Lenses made the company's products one at a time on diamond-tipped lathes.
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As a U.S. senator from Delaware who spent ten years in county government, and as the expert craftsmen and women of This Old House, we've seen firsthand that apprenticeships can help address these issues.
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The homogenized factory wine produced under the Soviets — pronounced "garbage" by one Georgian and necessitating the destruction of hundreds of varieties of grapes — is a stain that these dedicated craftsmen are eager to erase.
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That we spotlight master craftsmen, and that we bring them in direct contact with a large audience, to inspire them, to share their skills and passion, and to perhaps find a successor or customer.
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The magic of Bridget Collins's novel "The Binding," in which gifted craftsmen are able to remove those memories entirely and create books full of captured experiences, is only a step away from that reality.
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In order not to fall behind, this summer Alrosa launched "electronic passports" for each gem, which tell buyers which craftsmen cut and polished it, as well as when and, crucially, where it was extracted.
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Engineers in some departments are rarely rotated through the company and work "almost as if they were craftsmen in a remote village with little contact with the outside world," one of the insiders said.
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Her parents, both Lebanese, moved frequently because of political upheaval, and when they'd resettle in a new house, her mother would hire local craftsmen to build the furniture that she designed for their home.
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They are executed at her headquarters in Geneva, which has two craftsmen devoted to her work and six who produce pieces for well-known high-end jewelry brands (whose names she refuses to disclose).
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The city is getting behind an ambitious project to digitally record the sounds of the Stradivarius instruments for posterity, as well as others by Amati and Guarneri del Gesù, two other famous Cremona craftsmen.
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This pair of Canadian R&B craftsmen co-wrote Drake's 2013 hit "Hold On, We're Going Home," thereby ensuring that you likely know the contours of their sound whether you realize it or not.
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Courtyard houses were designed for itinerant traders that came in and out of Lhasa, while the single-family homes (Khang-pa) were built for craftsmen and retired officials, or even as summer homes for aristocrats.
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Your host shows you to your thatched hut, made by local Lahu craftsmen, and brings you to a dinner table set with fragrant Thai soup and a fresh omelet atop a steaming bed of rice.
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Another bonus of craftsmen on call, Bali-style: Most shoes are repaired for free, including new leathers, as many times as a customer needs and bespoke styles can easily be produced per a customer's specifications.
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The collaboration was the brainchild of Pierre Terjanian, the curator in charge of the arms and armor collection, who was trying to figure out how to show the collection as its craftsmen intended — in motion.
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Op-Ed Contributor DUBAI — In early December Afghan fashion found a place in the Middle Eastern edition of Vogue magazine, lithe models posed in colorful, high-end gowns and accessories made by craftsmen from Afghanistan.
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When Ms. Wenger moved into town, an Ifa priest asked her to help restore some of the shrines, which she did with the help of local craftsmen and artists she had befriended, like Mr. Akanji.
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Today only a handful remain in the delta, but a few craftsmen still know how to measure and fit pieces of wood together in a curve and then hammer the hull together with copper nails.
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Georg Schoenerer, son of a successful Viennese industrialist, was the first to turn anti-Semitism into a political programme, denouncing the "sucking vampires" who knocked at the "narrow-windowed house of the German farmer and craftsmen".
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All these sets have been made, and there's incredible craftsmen involved, all of the seamstresses making all these costumes, and the love and attention that's going into every detail – I really wanted her to see that.
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The fine craftsmen at Madame Tussauds London have been caught somewhere in between these stages of Grande, seemingly Googling images from 2008 for source material for the face, and 2018 photos for the body and attire.
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The company estimates that some 12,000 of China's rural village craftsmen sell to the broader public via Taobao, but there's room to grow — there are about 600,000 villages in the country left to reach, it said.
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While it is still too early to tell what may come of a possible trade war, Mitenbuler noted, American whiskey is battle-tested and will rally with help from its loyal market of connoisseurs and craftsmen.
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Since software, rather than skilled craftsmen working in wood or metal, is behind the process, changes can be made easily and cheaply; traditional machine tools used in mass-production factories make design alterations expensive and slow.
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On Soccer PARIS — In a sporting sense, the European soccer championship is a gathering of tremendous talent, artful craftsmen and bubbling drama, a delicious recipe that produces one of the most remarkable events on the calendar.
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"In Japan, craftsmen who can now repair mechanical watches are slowly disappearing," Mr. Ikeda said, "since high skills and techniques are not required anymore to repair quartz styles," which most of his customers own these days.
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T MAGAZINE An article on Page 59 about the Louisiana house of Robert E. Smith refers incorrectly to the craftsmen who performed a crackle finish on the trim inside his house; they were painters, not carpenters.
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T MAGAZINE An article on Page 2800 about the Louisiana house of Robert E. Smith refers incorrectly to the craftsmen who performed a crackle finish on the trim inside his house; they were painters, not carpenters.
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Created by D.A.R. Projects, a design studio founded in northern Peru in 2016, they're part of the Kux Stone Objects series, which relies on local craftsmen, centuries-old techniques and regional materials to elevate workaday objects.
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In order to reach this master level of diamond cutting, some of these craftsmen must practice for over 10 years with white diamonds before they acquire skills and patience needed to handle even rarer colored diamonds.
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For other pieces, the craftsmen, who are on a platform, pour the molten crystal from the end of their pipes into molds, each of which is held by a worker below — so gravity helps the process.
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Mr. Schlumberger's considerable imagination, unfettered thanks to his employer's considerable gem vault and deep pockets and his own team of skilled craftsmen, was able to reach new heights and Tiffany enjoyed a much-needed creative boost.
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VIENNA — On a quiet side street in Vienna's sixth district, a 19th-century house, partially covered in ivy, holds a remarkable secret: rare, museum-quality interiors created by one of the city's most esteemed historicist master craftsmen.
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Long before America declared independence from the British, this unbroken road was a culturally rich circus littered with thousands of inns and tea houses, lacquerware craftsmen, comb stores, sake breweries, swordmakers, brothels, soba shops, temples, and shrines.
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Sudarshan Jain and his family, pilgrims from Rajasthan, a state hundreds of miles away, visited an open-air workshop where craftsmen chiseled floral designs and figurines of Ram on pink sandstone slabs that will form the temple.
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Ms. Buckland — a Brooklyn native, not a fan — says that sports photographers have traditionally been regarded as hard-working craftsmen who snap the winning goal or disastrous error, then do it all over again the next day.
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Many of the craftsmen have worked in the factory in the Oum al-Jood district of Mecca all their lives but they will retire soon, so a new generation is being trained to carry on the trade.
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Interest has also extended to other new condo projects in the Court Square area, including Corte, an eight-story, 85-unit building; the Bond, a seven-story, 42-unit project; and Craftsmen Townhomes, eight four-story townhouses.
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The 15-year-old company has a highly successful business model: It pairs young designers in Shanghai with master craftsmen in Jingdezhen (the birthplace of Chinese pottery) to produce unique and modern, well, spins on traditional porcelain.
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Around this same time, the Jaipur-based design company Anokhi began seeking out families with specialized knowledge to resuscitate traditional patterns and design new ones, helping to instill in craftsmen a sense of value in their work.
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Read: 11,500-year-old infant remains reveal ancient population Jeffrey Quilter, a lecturer at Harvard University and a specialist on Moche history, said that the term "master craftsmen," sometimes used to describe the Moche, was well-justified.
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In addition to any necessary infrastructural upgrades, like plumbing and electrical updates and the installation of central air-conditioning, chances are it's going to take a small army of master craftsmen to bring it back to life.
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But beyond that, there were creative differences: Mahler grew up amidst the fine and decorative arts, and Gropius advocated for the Bauhaus workshop as a new ideal — a place with no elitist distinction between artists and craftsmen.
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Mr Clark notes that in the past the skilled-wage premium, defined as the difference in wages between craftsmen, such as carpenters and masons, and unskilled labourers has been fairly stable, save for two sharp declines (see chart).
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Besides its structural grandeur, al-Qarawiyyin also has exceptional origins: it arose thanks to a woman, Fatima a-Fihri, who used her inheritance from her wealthy merchant father to create this center of knowledge, realized by master craftsmen.
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PARIS (Reuters) - After more than a thousand years of service, the Paris mint has thrown its doors open to the public with a vast exhibition of treasures, collectors' coins and a view of the craftsmen in their workshops.
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She was recommended for the prestigious commission by one of the male craftsmen she works alongside in Sarajevo's Old Town, where coppersmiths have crafted Turkish-style coffee-pots and traditional round baking trays for the past 500 years.
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A typical taproom makes 23-gallon batches multiple times a day, employing men and women to haul fully loaded, 2000-pound kegs across a factory floor, and retrofitting spaces and installing brewery equipment requires skilled craftsmen and laborers.
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The notable absence at the headquarters of jewelry maker House of Garrard, whose craftsmen made the America's Cup trophy in 1848, was Emirates Team New Zealand (ETNZ) which said it would prefer to stick with the previous arrangements.
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He pointed to his 2001 U.S. Open triumph against Pete Sampras and his Wimbledon title a year later - titles that proved that baseline craftsmen could prosper in a sport where physical power and booming serves were taking over.
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So when Anthony Bourdain, the culinary world's foremost anti-establishment bullshit-detector, decided to launch Raw Craft, a web series that highlights true craftsmen—artisans such as famed knifemaker Bob Kramer and welder Elizabeth Bishop—I was intrigued.
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"So many people have helped us on our way, including many craftsmen in Japan," chef Noz says of the restaurant, which took four years to conceive and complete alongside his business partners, the restaurateurs Josh and David Foulquier.
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Craftsmen in the city of Zlatoust, east of Moscow, have released a limited series of silver and gold commemorative coins, engraved with "In Trump We Trust" - an allusion to the phrase on U.S. banknotes "In God We Trust".
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Kevin has no children, and Mira's aren't interested in taking over her role managing 11 craftsmen along with a design and administration team, developing new designs for clients and cataloging historic ones that date back nearly five decades.
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In the old city, Syrian stone masons have restored some of the crumbling monuments and skilled Syrian coppersmiths from Aleppo have found a place alongside Turkish craftsmen, beating intricate designs into copper jugs and platters in tiny workshops.
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Hoa Hakananai'a acts as their ambassador and we want that to remain the case — but we want to exchange him for a moai that will be sculpted by craftsmen on the island so that the representative is there voluntarily.
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It almost always has been, which is why Luddites were pondering technological unemployment more than a hundred years ago, worried that low-skill workers aided by machines would replace master craftsmen during the industrial revolution (spoiler alert: they did).
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In a matter of minutes, the irreplaceable work of ancient artisans, craftsmen and scribes — not to mention the efforts of Yemeni and foreign researchers who have dedicated years of their lives to studying and preserving this legacy — were pulverized.
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It's easy to fall for stereotypes when you're thinking about Imperial Japan, especially when the Internet offers plenty of dreamy, romanticized, hand colored photos of geishas, samurais, craftsmen, and peasants, all wearing traditional clothes and posing in medieval scenes.
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And while Mr Zelensky does not have a core electorate, he appeals to the urban lower middle-class—traders, taxi-drivers and craftsmen who have rarely voted and stayed at home watching television during the Maidan revolution of 2014.
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And craftsmen in the city of Zlatoust, east of Moscow, have released a limited series of silver and gold commemorative coins, engraved with "In Trump We Trust" - an allusion to the phrase on U.S. banknotes "In God We Trust".
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Germany's booming construction sector, which was one of the drivers of a rebound in economic growth in the first quarter, has reached capacity constraints in many regions as companies are struggling with a severe lack of builders and craftsmen.
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The 33-acre, 23-room beachfront resort will have lush tropical gardens, an 24-hole golf course, a spa, a kids club, several restaurants and an artisan village where guests can interact with and buy goods from local craftsmen.
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Dozens of Saudi craftsmen, mostly in their 40s and 173s, are hard at work in a factory in Mecca preparing an embroidered black and gold cloth to cover the Kaaba, the holiest site in Islam.
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The leather harnesses that cross the bodice were made by craftsmen in South Africa so that they appear to be hand-stitched, and the imposing color was chosen to make eight actresses look as bold as 80, she said.
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The Bond, a 233-unit project on 11th Street, has raised prices twice, and increases are also expected at the condo Craftsmen Townhomes, whose sales team accepted an offer from an Amazon buyer last week, according to Mr. Benaim.
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Recently, Felgueiras, who also crafts craggy Portuguese cork vessels that he paints exotic shades — ecclesiastical purple, Oxford yellow, ultramarine green — and sells at the New Craftsmen gallery in London, has taken on one of his most quixotic projects yet.
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Installed at the Giardini, it's in the form of a public atelier staffed by professional craftsmen who are training a group of immigrants and asylum seekers to assemble lamps designed by Mr. Eliasson and sold to sustain the workshop.
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This shift coincided with the founding of the Academy, in 1927, by Louis B. Mayer, the head of M-G-M, who hoped to preëmpt the unionization of studio craftsmen by concocting an organization that could mediate labor disputes.
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This same impetus informed his project, "The Flesh is Yours, The Bones Are Ours," originally exhibited at the 2015 Istanbul Biennial, which revisited the work of Armenian craftsmen who created ornamentation for the facades of Istanbul's Art Nouveau buildings.
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On the other hand, Fischli and Weiss have produced remarkable, impeccably made sculptures that evidence not only their skill as craftsmen but also the time they've spent closely observing everyday objects, looking at them to the point of nourishment.
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"A Mechanical Bestiary: Automaton Clocks of the Renaissance" at Galerie J. Kugel in Paris is a splendid, unprecedented offering of 29 examples by a variety of master craftsmen then gathered in south Germany, all in working order and all for sale.
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But it's also plausible that the label of "African fabric," like "African art," flatten outs and simplifies its contents, attributing design, production, and consumption to anonymous craftsmen and buyers rather than makers and consumers with personal tastes and points of view.
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As secretary of state she spent endless — endless — days and weeks flying to obscure corners of the planet, celebrating the accomplishments of women craftsmen, championing the causes of women labor leaders, talking with and encouraging women in government and politics.
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The FAO and U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) have also agreed to monitor deforestation with high resolution satellite images and train local craftsmen to produce energy-saving clay stoves that would cut wood consumption by up to 25 percent, Gianvenuti said.
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"Not many people my age do this craft [...] The number of craftsmen has become so small that there was no school left to teach this technique," Shinri Tezuka shares, while working diligently on a tiny sugar replica of tree frog.
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The woodworking tools of professional craftsmen, record collections of professional DJs, and innumerable personal possessions of a large number of tenants are still locked in the building, behind doors no city agency seems willing to compel the landlord to open.
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A Victorian gin palace dating back to 1849, the pub has a bar fitted out by Italian craftsmen in their off time after they were brought to Belfast by Protestant mill-owners to build churches for their growing Catholic workforces.
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To find out, writers for Travel spent time in Vieques, St. Martin (below), St. John, Dominica and San Juan, P.R. A smattering of sun seekers had arrived at the beach and were greeted by two craftsmen selling necklaces and sarongs.
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Not far from the Giardini and Arsenale, at the local gallery Alma Zevi, the curator Clara Zevi tapped the American architecture and design firm Charlap Hyman & Herrero to create an installation of furniture that highlights the dexterity of Venice's craftsmen.
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If you don't invest in preserving the heritage and legacy of the watch industry, how will future generations understand the desire to acquire brands and timepieces that have been created by craftsmen and women out of the pure passion to create?
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They also assisted white craftsmen hired for the building's construction, with some becoming highly skilled workers in their own right - like John Hemmings, half-brother of Sally Hemings, a woman enslaved by Jefferson who had at least six children with him.
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Japan House Los Angeles' complimentary exhibition, HIDA | A Woodwork Tradition in the Making, invites visitors to discover the legendary craftsmen of Hida and their design legacy today, embodied in the work of century-old furniture maker Hida Sangyo Co., Ltd.
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As Communism unraveled in the late 53s, many residents lacked money to open independent shops, so entrepreneurs started illicitly selling extra appliances and household goods while craftsmen offered shoe repair, tailoring, and other services to pedestrians from their dimly lit bunkers.
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And a plaque reading "The New York Times" was added above the main doors, temporarily obscuring the plaque of the General Society, a nonprofit educational, philanthropic and cultural organization that was founded in 1785 by and for the city's craftsmen.
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Every month or so, she travels to a far-flung destination and talks to craftsmen dedicated to making one thing very well — arguably better than anyone else in the world — and then showcases their stories and wares on her website.
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When he spotted an interesting old Cartier piece, my grandfather would take the time to teach me something about it, how it had been made, where the inspiration had come from, or the problems the craftsmen had encountered making it.
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He devoted most of his life and energy as a draftsman, sculptor, designer, teacher, curator and administrator to documenting, preserving and promoting Indian crafts and craftsmen; leading schools in Mumbai and Lahore; and procuring commissions for his teachers and students.
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After graduating from the School for American Craftsmen at Alfred University, then located in southwestern New York State (it later moved to the Rochester Institute of Technology), she began her pottery career in earnest, making things for people to use.
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The aluminum paste in the bucket, for example, which ISIS craftsmen mix with ammonium nitrate to make a potent main charge for mortars and rocket warheads: Spleeters discovered the same buckets, from the same manufacturers and chemical distributors, in Fallujah, Tikrit, and Mosul.
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Poehler and Offerman were speaking from the set of their NBC reality competition series Making It, which challenges a group of artisan craftsmen and women to make a variety of projects to win the title of "Master Maker" and a $100,000 grand prize.
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His Oscar-winning 1958 documentary Glas best examples that approach: shot in crisp Technicolor, the film observes craftsmen blowing handmade crystal at the Royal Leerdam Glass Factory, featuring pure professionals who come to work in suits and light cigarettes off the hot glass.
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Every six months, the city's craftsmen and fournisseurs would make their rounds from house to house with sample cases, to show off their latest creations: François Lesage with embroidery, Gérard Lognon with pleats, Raymond Massaro with shoes, and Robert Goossens with jewelry.
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While some of the materials are still sourced from overseas (Italian acetate and hinges from Germany), all the manufacturing is done in the U.S. According to Shapiro, that created some difficulties: Many American craftsmen had not seen a frame being made before.
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TOKYO — While many people in Japan cherish their mechanical watches, getting them fixed may become difficult over the next few decades: The older generation of craftsmen, skilled in repairs, is retiring, and there are indications that few younger people are filling the ranks.
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Representing the largest assembly of Lindauer's works ever, the politicians, tribal leaders, warriors, tohunga (expert craftsmen), and many others from generations past together present a collective history of colonial New Zealand, capturing individual identities in a time of great social change and upheaval.
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Olivier Nasti, the two-star chef who runs the Winstub, owns Le Chambard in Kaysersberg and carries the title "meilleur ouvrier de France" (a national distinction rewarding the best craftsmen in their field), knew Mr. Bourdain as a friend and as a colleague.
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And so there's a need for future Brands, young cultural craftsmen who identify those who are building the future, synthesizing their work into a common ethos and bringing them together in a way that satisfies the eternal desire for community and wholeness.
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The status and ambition of the specials' directors have also grown, shifting from craftsmen for hire to stylists to the auteur Bo Burnham, whose distinctive work with Jerrod Carmichael and Chris Rock reveals editing and camerawork in dialogue with setups and punch lines.
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The ambitious and talented son of a master saddler in Bar-sur-Aube in the Champagne province, Gouthière arrived in Paris at an early age and began working under craftsmen who sharpened his skills and introduced him to important clients and connections.
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The company has led the sector with crucial strategic decisions, such as standardizing prices worldwide last April after gaps grew between regions because of volatile exchange rates, opening museum exhibitions devoted to its craftsmen and smart social media activity, often twinned with extravagant runway shows.
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Despite the story about the shipwreck, these artworks were actually made in Mr Hirst's studios in Britain and by highly trained European craftsmen, and deposited in the Indian Ocean—off Mozambique, it is believed—where they were filmed being lifted out of the sand.
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Nobody could look up into that vaulted ceiling without wondering at the cumulative genius of the thousands of anonymous craftsmen who, over a century and a half, realised a vision so grand in its structural ambition and so delicate in its hand-chiselled detail.
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Meanwhile, Poehler and Offerman are working together on a new NBC show: Making It, a six-episode reality competition series that challenges artisan craftsmen and women to make a variety of projects to win the title of "Master Maker" and a $100,000 grand prize.
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"However, other craftsmen and workers would also be involved, such as blacksmiths to make nails and other ironwork, caulkers to seal the gaps between planks, sailmakers, labourers and even people employed to pick up small bits of leftover timber littering the building site," he said.
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But the production of masks for popular consumption began long before that, when European colonizers began collecting tribal artifacts in the 19th century, and, in response, African craftsmen began to make works for the market that were separate from those created for their tribal ceremonies.
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Plus, the pieces — which are made by the same craftsmen who produce items for Gucci, Prada, and Chanel — are sold for about 70% off of the expected retail price, and all come with a photo and story about the person who actually made them.
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Christiansen, true to form, branded the property Flamingo Estate, complete with a logo made to look like a family crest that's weathered generations; the perimeter of the house is lined with dozens of terra-cotta pots, hand thrown by Moroccan craftsmen, engraved with tiny flamingos.
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Despite his professional training, Nakashima was later known not as an architect but as one of the foremost craftsmen in America: a steward of Yanagi's handmade beauty in a country swiftly abandoning its craft traditions in favor of efficiency and disposability, which it called modernity.
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At once delicate and substantial, the Windsor is named after the town in England where it was first distributed in the early 163th century, but it's considered to have been perfected by craftsmen in New York, Philadelphia and New England a few decades later.
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"People want to get something more sensuous and daring and colorful — and move away from, dare I say, bland interiors," said Catherine Lock,the co-founder and creative director of the New Craftsmen, a British producer of limited-edition and one-off design objects.
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Historically, forging truly good swords was generally a lengthy, labor-intensive and highly skilled process, and elaborate ornamental swords could take much more time and resources (this 2015 interview with master katana maker Norihiro Miyairi details the process, which requires multiple craftsmen including an expert polisher).
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He mostly explores anthropological and sociological issues in his work, from hanging wall structures that evoke survival mechanisms in the digital age to a multi-sensory theatrical installation comprising partly of satchels that include hand-written notes by the craftsmen of the piece that discuss their dreams.
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But City Hall, which controlled the college, prevailed, and an army of carpenters, electricians, telephone installers and other craftsmen descended on Hunter's turreted neo-Georgian gym, while the State Liquor Authority convened in an emergency session to grant a license to the newly completed delegates' lounge.
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Many of the sets included in Masterworks are by nameless artisans, including craftsmen of the East India Company and those of the House of Fabergé — which produced just two chess sets ever: one of Siberian jade and pale apricot serpentine, and another of silver and silver gilt.
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South Africa's spaza shops (convenience stores often run from people's homes), Kenya's jua kali (a Swahili term referring to the "hot sun" under which craftsmen traditionally made and sold their wares) or Senegal's tight-knit networks of Mouride street peddlers—all contribute to the informal economy.
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Photo: Ryan Lash / TED "We would like to let people who make those things — artists and engineers, brands and craftsmen — to imagine and create this new world where things are connected, where you don't need keyboards and screens and mouses to interact with a computer," he said.
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While it has become ordinary for Western designers to jet to the East for inspiration (and the less-expensive work of skilled craftsmen), Barkowski approaches her work differently: Having embedded herself deep in Southeast Asia and Northern Africa, she doesn't merely infuse her designs with exotic elements.
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"The environment in the U.K. is becoming increasingly unstable and makes it hard to plan for the future," Mr. Adam said from his atelier in Bucharest, where he is hiring craftsmen and women who once worked in factories that produced leather goods for Western luxury brands.
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She had plans to go to law school, but at 18, she was hired in Paris as an au pair by the French jewelry designer Marie-Hélène de Taillac, who is known for her colorful gemstone pieces handmade by craftsmen in India using 17th-century methods.
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Louis Vuitton, known for its high-quality monogrammed leather goods and the world-class skills of its French master craftsmen and women, is the jewel in the crown of its parent company, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the largest luxury group in the world by sales.
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