They carve for pleasure, often giving their work away. ... • Seniors carve wood, polish standup routines; • His 'mission': Making, giving away rosaries; • Brothers mold career in gourmet chocolates; • In a cookie cutter age, he still uses a brush...
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This stone, from the Volterra region of Italy, is a medium soft stone that will carve and polish easily. It is a solid white - light will not filter through the stone as it does with translucent white alabaster. There is no veining and rarely ever a flaw.
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Carved Dog of Fo Incense Burner Ch'ien Lung Period A.D.1736-1795 (Scanned photograph from Nott, 1962, plate LXV ... Nott describes in his book Chinese Jade the methods used to carve and polish jade in China, which I will quote:
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He said the uniforms he makes - some 5,000 annually - include replicas of British, Polish, Russian and American army wear and are used in films and historical re-enactments, a popular activity for history buffs.
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The union hall in Katowice, the buckle of Poland's coal belt, is filled with burly union representatives for a meeting with Polish presidential candidate Lech Kaczynski, and the miners and steelworkers like what they hear.
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Polish firms carve out niche with Nazi uniforms ; Andrzej Frankowski runs one of handful of companies in Poland that make copies of Nazi uniforms. Firm sells mainly to film companies and history buffs, but some fear uniforms he offers via internet may be falling into hands of far-right extremists ;
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My day started at a gem factory, where the men hammer, solder and heat the gold and silver and carve and polish the jade. ... Next we went to a parasol factory. From beginning to end I saw it all: the making and drying of the paper, the tedious assembly (all by women) of the bamboo frames, ... We then went to a silk factory.
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Calm radiates from this serene, clean-lined sandstone statue of a child in contemplation. ... Calm radiates from this serene, clean-lined sandstone statue of a child in contemplation. Vietnamese artisans carve and polish this statue by hand. The stone, locally known as "green stone," is quarried locally. *
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