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The Story of Glass in England
In the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries there were glassmakers in Surrey and Sussex where there was plentiful of timber, which produced colored glasses. Glass for England domestic needs was imported from Venice. Jacopo Verzelini make Venice glasses...
Enormous Uses of Tapestry in Olden Days
Tapestry was woven on a loom usually in large sizes. Many types of threads were used in making the laces like silk, gold and silver threads weaving different picture on subjects including the and Biblical history, mythology, and peasant scenes after ...
Important History of Tapestry
Many countries like England, encouraged establishments of tapestry factories in different places. Some of these places produced some of the finest tapestry and they have survived for long proving their excellence....
Knowing the Clocks, Watches and Musical Boxes
We have some knowledge about the clocks, watches and the musical boxes. we also know how they look and works in general. But here we will look into the details of their history and other uses, etc. and what we might not have known....
The History of Pewter and Paktong
These pewter and paktong metals are usually lesser-known metals that were used to make things before they were replaced by pottery and porcelain. Pewter is an alloy of tin with small additions of lead and other metals. And paktong is an alloy of copp...
Types of Stones and Their Characteristics
There are some jade and stones that we know very less about them. The natives of New Zealand sometimes use these stones for making figures of human and even articles like axe-head. These stones had never failed to surprise and delight the craftsmen a...
The Most Remarkable Porcelain in Italy
The Italians attempted many times to imitate the Chinese porcelain but resulting in only white glass. The first factory in Italy was started in 1720 by Francesco Vezzi, which made hard-paste porcelain varying in colour from white. Some of the rulers ...
Iron and Steel in Different Countries
The progress in iron and steel gave new ideas of firearms where Samuel Colt the inventor of automatic revolver during the nineteenth century played an important part....
The Most Remarkable English Porcelain Factories
There were many porcelain based factories in England and some of them like the factories operating during the eighteenth century at Chelsea and Worcester were the most consistent in their use of marks. This helped the collectors to identify the origi...
Different Art of Making Glass
Let us look into the details of some of the wares that we uses daily and really do not know about their history and uses. Glass, silver, plate, enamels, and metalwork are some of the wares that we are going to look into details. And there are differe... |
