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Hessian ( UK: / ˈhɛsiən /, US: / ˈhɛʃən / [1] ), burlap in North America, [2] or crocus in Jamaica [3] and the wider Caribbean, is a woven fabric made of vegetable fibres, usually the skin of the jute plant [4] [5] [6] or sisal leaves. [7] It is generally used (in the crude tow form known as gunny) for duties of rough handling, such as ...
Sackcloth. Sackcloth ( Hebrew: שַׂק śaq) is a coarsely woven fabric, usually made of goat 's hair. The term in English often connotes the biblical usage, where the Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible remarks that haircloth would be more appropriate rendering of the Hebrew meaning. [1]
Sopheap Pich was born in Battambang, Cambodia (then known as the Khmer Republic) in 1971. He grew up and survived the Khmer Rouge while a child in Cambodia, in 1984 he moved at age 13 to the United States of America. In 7th grade in the U.S., he enrolled into a school with a classroom setting and a teacher for the first time.
View from the Window at Le Gras 1826 or 1827, believed to be the earliest surviving camera photograph. [1] Original (left) and colorized reoriented enhancement (right). The history of photography began with the discovery of two critical principles: The first is camera obscura image projection, the second is the discovery that some substances ...
Arpilleras. An arpillera, which means burlap in Spanish, is a brightly colored patchwork picture made predominantly by groups of women (also known as arpilleristas ). The construction of arpilleras became popular in Chile during the military dictatorship (1973–90) of Augusto Pinochet. Arpilleras were made in workshops organized by a committee ...
An image of Orion's Belt composited from digitized black-and-white photographic plates recorded through red and blue astronomical filters, with a computer synthesized green channel. The plates were taken using the Samuel Oschin Telescope between 1987 and 1991. Astrophotography, also known as astronomical imaging, is the photography or imaging ...
Fiber art. Detail of design for Bluebell or Columbine printed art fabric, 1876, by William Morris. Fiber art ( fibre art in British spelling) refers to fine art whose material consists of natural or synthetic fiber and other components, such as fabric or yarn. It focuses on the materials and on the manual labor on the part of the artist as part ...
All eyes are on the girls — Charli XCX, Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan that is — as the latest albums and songs charts reveal career-best numbers for all three artists. Nearly six albums ...