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  2. Amigurumi - Wikipedia

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    Amigurumi (Japanese: 編みぐるみ, lit. "crocheted or knitted stuffed toy") is the Japanese art of knitting or crocheting small, stuffed yarn creatures. The word is a compound of the Japanese words 編み ami , meaning "crocheted or knitted", and 包み kurumi , literally "wrapping", as in 縫い包み nuigurumi "(sewn) stuffed doll". [ 1 ]

  3. Textile manufacturing by pre-industrial methods - Wikipedia

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    A skein is a coil of yarn twisted into a loose knot. Yarn is skeined using a niddy noddy or other type of skein -winder. Yarn is rarely balled directly after spinning, it will be stored in skein form, and transferred to a ball only if needed. Knitting from a skein, is difficult as the yarn forms knots, in this case it is best to ball.

  4. Woman DIYs Elaborate Enclosure for Lizard Out of Styrofoam ...

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    Building a Styrofoam Habitat For Your Lizard Adding a natural-looking backdrop to your spiny-tailed lizard’s habitat is a good way to enrich the animal’s life.

  5. Käthe Kruse - Wikipedia

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    Käthe Kruse, born Katharina Simon (17 September 1883, in Dambrau – 19 July 1968, in Murnau am Staffelsee) was a notable pioneer of German doll-making and went on to establish manufacturing principles which persist to this day. [1] Her original dolls remain very collectible due to their realism and durability, and fetch high prices from ...

  6. Cephalopods in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    The NROL-39 mission patch, depicting the National Reconnaissance Office as an octopus with a long reach. Cephalopods, usually specifically octopuses, squids, nautiluses and cuttlefishes, are most commonly represented in popular culture in the Western world as creatures that spray ink and use their tentacles to persistently grasp at and hold onto objects or living creatures.

  7. List of hybrid creatures in folklore - Wikipedia

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    Scylla – A monster from Greek mythology which has the body of a woman, six snake heads, twelve octopus tentacles, a cat's tail and four dog heads in her waist. Fenghuang – A Chinese creature with the head of a golden pheasant, the body of a mandarin duck, the tail of a peacock, the legs of a crane, the mouth of a parrot and the wings of a ...

  8. Uglydoll - Wikipedia

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    Uglydoll is a brand and series of plush toys created by Sun-Min Kim, based on an idea by Kim and her husband David Horvath.The Uglydoll line was launched on February 14, 2001, and was awarded the Specialty Toy of the Year award by the Toy Industry Association in 2006.

  9. Amphioctopus marginatus - Wikipedia

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    Amphioctopus marginatus is a species of octopus located in the family Octopodidae, genus Amphioctopus. The species was first described in 1964 by Japanese malacologist Iwao Taki as Octopus marginatus, and synonymously as Amphioctopus marginatus. In 1976, Z. Dong named the species Octopus striolatus but this name was not recognized as ...