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  2. Darning - Wikipedia

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    A darning mushroom is a mushroom-shaped tool usually made of wood. The sock is stretched over the curved top of the mushroom, and gathered tightly around the stalk to hold it in place for darning. A darning gourd is a hollow dried gourd with a pronounced neck. The sock can be stretched over the full end of the gourd and held in place around the ...

  3. William S. Darling - Wikipedia

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    Darling was nominated six times between 1934 and 1947 in the category Best Art Direction. [4] He won the Oscar for Cavalcade, The Song of Bernadette (1943) and Anna and the King of Siam (1946). [5] Darling was a fellow of the American Academy of the Fine Arts. [1] In 2012, the American Art Director's Guild inducted Darling into its Hall of Fame ...

  4. Rafoogar - Wikipedia

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    Rafoogiri is a traditional art; it consists of sewing, making the joints, looping, and repairing holes or worn areas in fabric using needles and thread (of base colors). Rafoogar is the person who mends torn clothing by matching the weave, making identical loops, creating rows of stitches, and sometimes by crossing and interweaving rows to ...

  5. Darn - Wikipedia

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    Darning, a sewing technique; Darn, a minced oath for "damn" See also. All pages with titles beginning with Darn ; Phil Darns (born 1959), American football player

  6. Visible mending - Wikipedia

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    Visible mending is a form of repair work, usually on textile items, that is deliberately left visible (compare to invisible mending).The dual goals of this practice are to adorn the item, and to attract attention to the fact it has been mended in some way.

  7. Sampler (needlework) - Wikipedia

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    The earliest sampler extant is a spot sampler, i.e. one having randomly scattered motifs, of the Nazca culture in Peru [5] formerly in the Museum of Primitive Art, New York City. It is estimated to date from ca. 200 BCE –300 CE and is worked in cotton and wool pattern darning on a woven cotton ground.

  8. Ply-split braiding - Wikipedia

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    Ply-split braiding is an ancient art that is practiced for making elaborate camel girths and other animal regalia of hand-spun goat hair, wool or sometimes cotton in northwestern India. The first written description of the technique appeared in 1976 with Virginia Harvey's "Split-Ply Twining". [ 1 ]

  9. Appliqué - Wikipedia

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    Collage, a technique of art production, primarily used in the visual arts, where the artwork is made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. Khatwa , the name given to appliqué works in Bihar , India.