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textiles

(Encyclopedia)textiles, all fabrics made by weaving, felting, knitting, braiding, or netting, from the various textile fibers (see fiber). Yarn, fabrics, and tools for spinning and weaving have been found among...

serigraphy

(Encyclopedia)serigraphy: see silk-screen printing. ...

intaglio

(Encyclopedia)intaglio ĭntălˈyō, –tälˈ– [key], design cut into stone or other material or etched or engraved in a metal plate, producing a concave, instead of a convex, effect. It is the reverse of a reli...

Accrington

(Encyclopedia)Accrington, town, Lancashire, NW England. The principal industry is cotton weaving. Textile printing and dyeing and the manufacture of machinery and bricks are also important. ...

Bell, city, United States

(Encyclopedia)Bell, city (2020 pop. 35,339), Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1927. It is chiefly residential, with printing, metal fabrication, and the manufacture of...

Braille, Louis

(Encyclopedia)Braille, Louis brāl, Fr. lwē brīˈyə [key], 1809?–1852, French inventor of the Braille system of printing and writing for the blind. Having become blind from an accident at the age of 3, he was ...

Vale Press

(Encyclopedia)Vale Press, celebrated British establishment for fine printing. It was one of the presses founded in London in 1896 during the revival of the art and craft of making books. The Vale type and the other...

Baldwin Park

(Encyclopedia)Baldwin Park, city (2020 pop. 72,176), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a suburb of Los Angeles, in the fertile San Gabriel valley; settled 1870, inc. 1956. I...
 

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