Fashion houses such as Ferragamo and Gucci are headquartered here, and traditional industries such as shoemaking, glass making and jewellery are going strong.
The company is the second largest producer of commercial silica, which is a sand-like substance used in fracking as well as glass making and chemical manufacturing.
The aim is to showcase crafts and industries from across the region and feature the chain makers of the Black Country, the potteries in Stoke-on-Trent, computer gaming in Leamington Spa, glove making in Worcester and glass making in Stourbridge.
You can watch real artisans blowing glass, making lye soap and carving chairs the old-fashioned way.
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Highly skilled in metalwork, ivory carving and glass-making, the name Phoenician derives from the iconic purple color they used to dye their superior textiles.
The second will focus on the diversity of the national, and in particular the Venetian, intangible cultural heritage (such as traditional boats, Venice Carnival, Murano glass- making and Burano lace to the legacy of fine Venetian fabrics and textiles).
He built a hippy commune at Pilchuck not far from Seattle, where people camped and tripped out on making glass.
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This substance is used in making glass, bricks, chemicals and cleaning products.
Corning makes its money these days much the same way it has made money for more than 150 years--by making glass do incredible things.
In addition, the OLEDs can be fabricated onto a flexible plastic substrate rather than a rigid glass layer, making it easier to manufacture them into a curved screen.
Corning (nyse: GLW - news - people ) makes its money these days much the same way it has made money for more than 150 years--by making glass do incredible things.
Unless they can get as excited about putting an ad on a beer glass as about making a television film, they could become the servants of the media strategists: mere drones in outsourced ideas factories.
Like many artists, he started out making simple glass toys and figurines to sell at malls.
Corning made huge profits because it dominated the business of making the glass envelopes that house TV picture tubes, first for black and white, later for color.
David Sanderson, a physicist at the Scottish universities' research and reactor centre, says that while this would need heavy investment (and a lot of workers), plutonium can be mixed with waste and vitrified into storable glass blocks, so making it unusable in bombs if any terrorists managed to steal some.
This year with Gorilla Glass 3, just introduced at CES 2013, the focus was on making the tough, durable glass even stronger.
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That seems like a feat, given that the 13-inch S7 has a glass cover -- after all, the last time we reviewed a laptop with a glass lid we ended up making excuses for its relatively heavy build.
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Then we'll close things out with an interview from none other than LeVar Burton, who tells us about the rebirth of Reading Rainbow and how Project Glass and the iPad are making the real world a little bit more like Star Trek.
Corning said it is making moves to cut glass capacity.
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This could be done with a slower nanosecond laser, but would risk making tiny cracks in the glass, which can cause the contents to deteriorate.
The wafer is then heated and the oxygen reacts with the silicon around it, making silicon dioxide (ie, glass).
There are also the moments at the end of a long week (with music turned up and a glass of wine at hand) of happily making flower arrangements for the entire house.
The night beyond the glass walls turned a profound, unsullied black, making our candlelit circle of light all the more companionable.
Factories making iron (for weaponry) and glass (for the manor houses that were replacing dark castles) needed lots of it.
Google Glass would use natural language voice recognition to operate, making it a perfect candidate for virtual assistant integration.
The company specializes in making the panels flexible by foregoing the use of glass as a protective layer.
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The company has tweaked the chemical and atomic composition of the raw materials of the glass, which in turn has increased its density -- making it much more scratch and dent resistant than last years model.
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However, these Glass wearers stuck out, their telltale frames with conspicuous rectangular pieces making them easy to pick out in the crowd.
After making his acting breakthrough in the Tennessee Williams play The Glass Menagerie, Borgnine gained his first major film role in From Here to Eternity in 1953, playing a sadistic sergeant who beats up Frank Sinatra's character, Private Angelo Maggio.
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