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'Blandford Cartwheel' button. A Dorset button is a style of craft-made button originating in the English county of Dorset.Their manufacture was at a peak between 1622 and 1850, after which they were overtaken by machine-made buttons from factories in the developing industries of Birmingham and other growing cities.
Dara Horn (born 1977) is an American novelist, essayist, and professor of literature. She has written five novels and in 2021, released a nonfiction essay collection titled People Love Dead Jews , which was a finalist for the 2021 Kirkus Prize in nonfiction.
Dara Caponigro is a design executive and editor of design magazines, currently Chief Creative Officer for the design house F. Schumacher & Co. and Editor-in-Chief of the design magazine, Frederic. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Over her career as a magazine editor she has held senior roles at House Beautiful , Elle Décor , Domino and Veranda [ 2 ] Caponigro is ...
Knot patterns first appeared in the third and fourth centuries AD and can be seen in Roman floor mosaics of that time. Interesting developments in the artistic use of interlaced knot patterns are found in Byzantine architecture and book illumination , Coptic art , Celtic art, Islamic art , Kievan Rus' book illumination, Ethiopian art , and ...
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A Celtic button knot is a stopper knot on a single rope that results in a spherical decorative knot with hair braid / basket weave pattern. It is essentially a single strand Turk's Head Knot that is structured such a way that it is effectively tied around the rope itself, creating a stopper.
A pattern book, or architectural pattern book, is a book of architectural designs, usually providing enough for non-architects to build structures that are copies or significant derivatives of major architect-designed works. A number of pattern books have been very influential in spreading architectural styles.
The Sirr-i-Akbar (Persian: سرِ اکبر, “The Greatest Mystery” or “The Greatest Secret”) is a version of the Upanishads authored by the Mughal-Shahzada Dara Shukoh, translated from Sanskrit into Persian, c. 1657.