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also: .Japanese
arts and culture
About
Japan
Animated films, archaeology, Buddhism, chronology, tea ceremony,
crafts, flower arranging, food, garden design,chronology, historical
sites,
kabuki drama, kimono, Kyoto, kyudo archery, mingei folk art, museums,
noh
drama, origami paper folding, photos of old Japan, puppets, pottery,
Shinto,
shodo calligraphy, sumo, sushi, ukiyo-e woodblock prints, wooden dolls.
Dolls. Hand-made
Japanese Imari and Hakata dolls.
Ikebana
Japanese
Embroidery Center
Japanese
woodblock prints and artists.
Kyoto
National Museum
Netsuke.
International Netsuke Society
Origami
Woodblock
prints and artists.
JEWELLERY
See: Jewellery Page
Jewellery
Virtual Museum, including links to jewellery webpages.
LACE
The
Lace Guild, UK. Lace pictures, lace magazine, lace techniques, lace
styles,
crafts.
MASKS
MagicMythMask
A collection of indigenous masks from five continents, presented by
country
with cultural background, sound and video clips. Rich in web resources.
Mask
Arts. Theatre masks, film production masks, commedia masks. New York.
I am Ali asghar Khatibzadeh, born in 1965 in Damghan, Iran. I graduated
from Faculty of Art, Niavaran Cultural Institute in 1992. I am a
playwright and the writer of Short stories, permanent member of Street
Plays Society, Tehran Theater Center and designer of Mask and Puppet.
METALWORK
Architectural
ironwork in New York, pictorial samples.
Metalwork.
Silver, Gold, Metalwork (Victoria and Albert Museum)
Oldhouse
Journal Online
Decorative ironwork, house restoration and remodelling.
Silverware
Antique
Toys. Toy gallery, collecting, toy ID Aids, appraisals.
Bryan
Douglas silverware.
Antique Silver and Design Blog
A blog about antique silver, 20th century silver and design and other related subjects.
Christopher
Hartop's antique silver collector's guide.
I
Franks Antique Silver, London.
A C Silver
Specialists in Antique, Vintage and Contemporary Sterling Silver, Diamond and Gemstone Jewellery. Newcastle Upon Tyne, U.K.
Silver
Collecting.com
Online Encyclopedia of American Silver Marks
Silver
marks around the world.
Wrought
iron resources, wrought iron webpage links.
Gotscha
Lagidse, armourer, artist and
artisan in iron and steel:
ancient arms and armour, sacral vessels in
fine metals. Netherlands.
MOTIFS
Decoration
in Islamic architecture.
Hindu
motifs. Inndira Ghandi National
Centre for the
Arts
19th
Century Decorative Arts.
The Mint Museum
Viking
embroidery motifs.
MOSAICS
Ancient Greek Mosaics & Designs from Pella, Thessaloniki & Crete.
Bardo Museum Mosaics, Tunisia.
British
Association for Modern Mosaic
Byzantine
and Roman mosaics, a photo album.
Byzantine
Mosaics, a Wikipedia photo album.
Classical
Mosaics
The
Joy of Shards
Mosaic gardens, Mosaic sculpture, London mosaics, La Maison
Picassiette, Chartres, France, Niki de Saint Phalle's Tarot Garden, and
others.
Pietre
dure. Wikipedia entry.
Pitti Adami Mosaics
Roman
mosaics in Sicily
Villa
Romana del Casale, Sicily, the richest,largest
and most complex collection of late Roman mosaics in the world.
Wikipedia
entry on Mosaics.
NETSUKE
The International Netsuke Society
Wikipedia
entry on Netsuke.
Sagemonoya
The only antique netsuke gallery in Japan, Sagemonoya deals exclusively in
genuine Japanese netsuke, inro, pipecases, ojime, yatate and bokuto.
Edmund de Waal's website.
The Hare with Amber Eyes, by Edmund de Waal
ORIGAMI
British
Origami Society
Instructions, Origami videos
How to fold origami models, flowers, animals, cranes, boxes, planes as well as animations, cartoons and more.
Origami instructions. Making the butterfly's wings flutter.
Origami for Kids (Paper Airplanes)
Originals, exclusives and unique origami. Interactive 3D animation to
help you fold the paper airplanes and boats and guide you, step to
step, in the construction of the craft models.
OrigamiTube.com, an easy-to-use origami video site with instructional and other origami related videos.
Learn the art of origami, including how to make basic folds and how to make paper flowers, bats, cups and more.
Como Fazer Origami
Aprenda como fazer origamis, saiba a história e muito mais sobre essa arte com papel
Joseph
Wu's Origami Page
The
Origami Forum
Origami
USA
Origami
World
Oxford
Origami Society
Wikipedia
entry on Origami.
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