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The Indian Carpet Industry
1,419 wordsIndia, like many other countries, has always used wool as the basic material of the carpet. Other materials commonly used are silk and cotton. Silk carpets are particularly high quality pieces. In the beginning of the carpet making century, only natural dyes were used to color the wool. Madder, as well as other wild vegetables, was the most important element of this dying process. "Other natural elements used to make dyes are turmeric root (light yellow), pomegranate skins (darker yellow), rhuba...
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3,085 wordsThe way you live is being directly influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright? s innovations in residential architecture. Mr. Wright? s? organic architecture? was a radical departure form the traditional architecture of his day, which was dominated by European styles that dated back hundreds of years or even millennia. He contributed the Prairie and Usonian houses to the familiar of American residential design, and elements of his designs can be found in a large proportion of homes today. While most of hi...
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Pampa Flats Moseley Nazca Favorably Anton 1992
3,710 wordsNAZCA ART By 15 / 96 # 6720087 76. 26 The classical Nazca culture inhabited areas around the Nazca Valley on the South coast of Peru during the Early Intermediate period, or 300 BC 600 AD. Their capitol city was Cahuachi, located near the Rio Nazca several kilometers inland. In its florescence Cahuachi was a ceremonial place where the Nazca would go and meet to conduct rituals or do business; since the average citizen did not live within the city. Eventually Cahuachi was changed into a mortuary ...
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