Production of the material includes several stages: silk floss is spun into yarn by hand, with patterns added by hand-tying bundles of yarn before dyeing the yarn with indigo, then the silk is woven using a back-tension loom.
This season, Ms. Bruno likes elegant, hand-painted patterns instead of crisply defined flowers, which don't feel as fresh to her.
The aloha (or Hawaiian) shirt, with its hand-blocked patterns of canoes, pineapples and leis was in its infancy, still a made-to-order keepsake for adventurous tourists.
While other fabric and wallpaper purveyors, such as Eskayel, are creating the look of shibori patterns through hand-painting, workshops teaching the real thing are popping up from California to Maine giving anyone who's wearied of the ikat trend the opportunity to dye another way.
On the other hand it might help explain patterns of disease associated with ageing as cells whose ancestors were genetically identical slowly diverge from one another.
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On the other hand, be alert for eating patterns and beliefs that may signal unhealthy behavior, as well as peer pressure that may trigger eating disorders.
On one hand, they asserted that consumers had changed spending patterns and it was appropriate to change the weightings of housing, food, energy, health care, etc.
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Influenced by indigenous craft, the embroidery of Venetian courtiers who ruled the country beginning in 1489, and ancient Greek and Byzantine geometric patterns, Lefkara lace is made by hand in designs combining four basic elements: the hemstitch, cut work, satin stitch fillings and needlepoint edgings.
Trained assessors then graded the patterns of lines and skin coarseness on the hand impressions on a scale of one to six.
And so, seated at my Jerusalem window last year, ready to at last look back and write, I was familiar with the task at hand, the need to gather information and to then look for patterns in it.
So they hand their health-care payment data over to companies that analyze the patterns and tell them how to reduce their health-insurance spending.
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