Lace Design Work of Arpad Dekani
Illustration: Arpad Dekani Lace design c1908 Much of the early twentieth century revival of practical lace making, but more particularly that of designing lace within Hungary, can be attributed fairly squarely to Arpad Dekani. Professor Dekani, who started his career relatively humbly as a teacher at a provincial school in Hungary, eventually became a professor at the Arts and Crafts School in Budapest.
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Lace Design Work of Arpad Dekani
About that aforementioned rant: Of all the people to take umbrage with my litany of bellyaches in the paper today, Tim Jones, CEO of Artscape , was very upset with my characterization of his arm's-length city-associated agency as “tiny” (he didn't like “city agency” either). While it's completely true that, with the addition of the Wychwood Barns and the forthcoming Shaw/Givins School redux, Artscape's physical holdings are far from tiny in the literal sense, I was suggesting that, in the context of actually meeting the need of a perpetually migrant art community, Artscape, though it provides desperately-needed space buffered from the market, is barely a drop in the bucket when it comes to demand.
Strange + Wonderful = Mary Catherine Newcomb’s "Product of Eden"If you're passing through Kitchener, as I was on the weekend, you'd be silly not to stop off at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery and see what's growing in the front garden.
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Strange + Wonderful = Mary Catherine Newcomb’s "Product of Eden"
Illustration: Anders Zorn. Dalecarlian Scene tapestry panel, 1909 Anders Zorn the Swedish fine art painter is probably better known outside of his native Sweden, as that of an accomplished and highly successful nineteenth and early twentieth century portrait painter. Zorn travelled widely in both Europe and North America and his portraits made him wealthy and acclaimed.
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Anders Zorn Tapestries
In the six years that I have been selling my art online… I have probably had a dozen or so pieces of art come up ‘missing’? During my years on eBay…I ended up having to start requiring a ‘signature upon delivery’…
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Mystery ‘solved’?
It’s been a very, very busy week, and I’m hoping to catch up on everything in all my lives, work, personal, domestic…. I drove over 800 miles to Arkansas without stopping for the night by myself and then back here to Virginia with my husband (who did the driving this time)
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The Long Road Home
Filed under: Beauty , Skin & Body , Makeovers In our weekly Post Your Face column, Dr.
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Post Your Face: My Frown Lines and Sagging Jowls Are Getting Me Down
Filed under: Cuts & Style , Hair , Makeovers Ever thought of choosing your hairstyles by face shape ?
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Hairstyles by Face Shape: The Perfect Haircut for a Square Face With Fine Hair
Jump to the full entry & travel map Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Ok people, I feel as though the way I have been writting this whole blog thing is way to slow, seeing as all of you are still a country behind in my story. So I will try to fast forward you to present.
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The beginning of the end…. — Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Jump to the full entry & travel map Fethiye, Turkish Aegean Coast, Turkey It was a 6 hour bus ride to Fethiye from Kusadasi, and by the time I arrived I was so desperate for a swim I gave in to the call of “taxi” at the bus station…surely the hostel wasn’t too far?
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Fish and Boating — Fethiye, Turkish Aegean Coast, Turkey
Jump to the full entry & travel map Nong Khai, Thailand 1 p.m. We are in Thailand! You can reach the Nong Khai Train Station from the Lao-Tai border by public buses or to take a tuk-tuk (price about the same). We took a tuk-tuk (30 baht for two).
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from Nong Khai to Bangkok by the train — Nong Khai, Thailand
Jump to the full entry & travel map Luang Prabang, Lao Peoples Dem Rep 24 марта Проснулись в 7 утра.
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Kouang Si Waterfalls near Luang Prabang — Luang Prabang, Lao Peoples Dem Rep
Jump to the full entry & travel map Luang Prabang, Lao Peoples Dem Rep Проснулись рано… Я хотела бы оставаться в кровати как можно дольше (да, да, да, мне очень хорошо с ним здесь и я не хочу никуда идти!!), но исследовательский дух в нас сильнее.
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Oh lovely Luang Prabang — Luang Prabang, Lao Peoples Dem Rep
Jump to the full entry & travel map Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States I’m one of those types that hates to pack… I started a couple weeks ago and will likely agonize over how many of this or that to take right down to the last minute.
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The Hardest Part — Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States
Jump to the full entry & travel map Luang Namtha, Lao Peoples Dem Rep 11.45 a.m. We are in Laos! First – to change money. A border guard said that there was a bank in 200 meters straight ahead from the border.
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Quick stop in Luang Namtha — Luang Namtha, Lao Peoples Dem Rep
Jump to the full entry & travel map Ruaha National Park, Tanzania Sunday we left Zanzibar to start our drive inland towards Malawi. It was not a good day…aside from having to leave a tropical paradise, it went like this: 1) 5am wake up call (not so unusual when we’re camping…but painful after several days of leisure!) 2) Horrible, horrible ferry ride back to Dar Es Salaam. The boat was fine on the way out to Zanzibar, but the waves were absolutely huge going back.
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Just when I thought I couldn’t like Dar any — Ruaha National Park, Tanzania
Jump to the full entry & travel map Fort Cochin, Kerala, India Ich hatte mir mit Hilfe von Adaikkalam ein Taxi auf 4Uhr bestellt. Der Fahrer war eine halbe Stunde zu spaet, am Rueckspiegel hing ein kleines Holzkreuz und ich wunderte mich schon ueber die vorhandenen Gurte, als er etwas fasselte von “Germany, drive fast, ah?”, danach auf sich zeigte und hinzufuegte, “no fifty, thirty minutes”.
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Touris, Kathakali und die Backwaters — Fort Cochin, Kerala, India
Jump to the full entry & travel map Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia WEEK 12 ROCKHAMPTON via MARLBOROUGH! On Saturday 17 July, Mike’s Birthday we passed the half way point of our trip after travelling 11,200 kms from home. Will be interesting to see how many kilometres we travel before getting back to Perth. We set off en route to Rocky (as Rockhampton is affectionately known) from Mackay fairly early on Friday morning with 338 kms to cover
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Half way through our trip for weekend at Rocky — Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
Jump to the full entry & travel map Lhasa, Tibet, China We were both up early due to the difficulty sleeping at altitude (we’re still at 3700m) and Adele’s blocked nose, so we sent a couple of hours getting our washing and drying done, before heading down to the lobby to meet Leon (the Chinese guide) to head into Barkhor Square and the Jokhang Temple. Out the front of the temple dozens of pilgrims prostrate themselves full length on the ground in prayer to Buddha, repeating their short ritual over and over. We made our way past them and into the tourist entrance of the temple, and proceeded to have a very rushed tour, led by Pemba (the Tibetan guide)
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The Jokhang Temple and Pothala Palace — Lhasa, Tibet, China
Steven Vedro , author of Digital Dharma , continues his meditations on the link between technological and spiritual development: “In earlier posts, I discussed how the coupling of electricity with our nervous system started the process of (in Marshal McLuhan’s words) “outering” our neurons, leading to the leap into “network consciousness” made possible by the Internet and digital media. We have moved into a noisy twittering world of multiple networks, where the other is everywhere, where everything is a reminder that we are part of something much larger than ourselves. I believe that this shift in perspective is vertical as well as horizontal.
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A spiritual interpretation of cloud computing and network consciousness