Posts Tagged ‘Origins’
Friday, February 18th, 2011
Millefiori Murano glass pendants were first introduced sometime during the 19th century, but they draw their origins from a technique that was available long before this period. The staple technology of creating concentric circle patterns had been around ever since ancient times, with the credit for inventing it being attributed to the Romans.
Tags: 19th Century, Concentric Circle, Creation, Glass Pendants, Inventing, Murano Glass, Origins, Romans, Technology, Traditions
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Monday, January 31st, 2011
The appeal of old pewter lies in its unusual shapes and mellow tints and above all in its rarity. At the point of origin antique pewter normally had low value and our ancestors could have had little notion, as they drank their ale from pewter tankards or ate their meals from pewter plate, of the prominence that these household goods would one day acquire or the prices that it might command. Although the metal itself has little intrinsic value - as an alloy of lead and tin with a soupcon of antimony, bismuth or copper - it has grown in...
Tags: Alloy, Ancestors, Antique Pewter, Antiques, Bismuth, Copper, Household Goods, Intrinsic Value, Notion, Origins, Point Of Origin, Prominence, Rarity, Shapes, Soupcon, Tankards, Tin, Tints
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Saturday, January 29th, 2011
People all all-around the globe have encountered the magnificence which is is Ballet dancing There have already been numerous ballet performers that have obtained enormous recognition and fortune by means of his or her dances. Ballet has for long been regarded as a glamorous dance form. The origins of the ballet are often unknown to a vast majority of people.
Tags: Ballet Dancing, Dance Form, Dances, Dancing Community, Fortune, Globe, Magnificence, Origins, Regard
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Thursday, September 16th, 2010
Only one of these origin of Terry Pratchett titles is correct. Can you work out which one? The answer is revealed at the bottom.
Tags: Origins, Terry Pratchett
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Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
Pate de verre is a labour-intensive form of glass making that dates to around the second millennium B.C. It is thought that the Mesopotamians were the first to leave written records of this glass making process which they used to produce glass beads to decorate jewellery with and for making glass sculptures.
Tags: Decorate, Glass Beads, Glass Sculptures, Labour, Mesopotamians, Millennium, Origins, Pate De Verre
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