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unusual facts about Handmade



66th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

based on "hunter's dress" and be armed with highly accurate Plains Rifles (handmade half-stock long rifles), provided by the famed St. Louis firearms firm of Horace (H.E.) Dimick of St. Louis (a competitor of the Hawken Brothers, also of St. Louis).

Alvarez Guitars

While many of its models are produced in China, the top-tier Alvarez-Yairi instruments are handmade by Kazuo Yairi at the Yairi factory in Kani, Gifu-Japan.

Banjara Needle Crafts

Banjara Needle Crafts are traditional handmade fabrics made by Banjaras in India.

Caraceni

The various Caraceni "sartorias" have crafted handmade suits for various celebrities over the years, including Tyrone Power, Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, Yves Saint Laurent, Gianni Agnelli, Sophia Loren and fashion designer Valentino Garavani.

Cheri Gaulke

While a resident, Gaulke published "Impedement", a handmade book that investigates the abuse of women’s footwear and feet through the ages-from the ancient Chinese foot binding to high heeled shoes of the present.

Craft Lake City

The festival partnered with the Salt Lake Film Festival to continue festivities a second day, August 15, with a screening of Faythe Levine’s film “Handmade Nation” followed by a question and answer session with some Craft Lake City artists.

Cutler and Gross

Cutler and Gross eye wear are designed at the Cutler and Gross headquarters in Marylebone, London and are handmade in a factory in Pieve di Cadore, Italy.

Diamond Crown Maximus

Diamond Crown Maximus (or Maximus by Diamond Crown) is a super premium cigar brand handmade by Tabacalera A. Fuente in the Dominican Republic for the J.C. Newman Cigar Company.

Ericsson Dialog

The Ericsson company presented King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden with a unique handmade Dialog telephone on his 40th birthday.

Genevieve Woo

Woo owns Vintage Bunny, an online jewellery store specialising in modern handmade and authentic vintage jewellery, created using natural stones, pearls, Balinese silver and Austrian crystals.

Glassybaby

Its primary product is a handmade glass votive, also known as a ‘’glassybaby’’, produced in more than four hundred colors and sold over the internet and through a few retail stores in the Seattle area and San Francisco.

Julio de Diego

In 1946 he held Modern Handmade Jewelry exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art and two years later remarried Gypsy Rose Lee, becoming her third husband that way.

KRLX

All electronics were handmade out of spare parts and the transmitter was from a scrapped World War II destroyer.

Lin Van Hek

She is an advocate of handmade houses and also lives half the year in a stone house on the Brass Knocker Creek near the Wadbilliga River and state forest in the southeastern corner of New South Wales.

Martin Honert

His early sculptures like Red Upholstered Chair and Table with Jell-O (both 1983) (Catalogue Raisonné nos. 4 & 5) are highly realistic handmade sculptures based on drawings Honert made of his time spent in boarding school in Westphalia.

Oliver Hartmann

So far he has recorded four solo albums, Out in the Cold, which was released in 2005 on the Italian Frontiers Records label, on which he also plays guitars, Home, which was released in early 2007, the live acoustic DVD/CD Handmade and the latest release 3 in late 2009.

Rachel Carter

Her full-scale rendering of Aeschylus’ Oresteian Trilogy (a classic of Greek tragedy, uniting the narratives of Agamemnon, Choephori, and Eumenides) included a traditional Greek chorus (complete with handmade masks) and an original musical score crafted to complement Carter’s own painstakingly edited script.

Rey Miguel

Rey Miguel is a brand of handmade premium cigar owned by Black Cat Cigar Co. of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States.

Robert G. Doumar

The family-owned eatery, Doumar's, in Norfolk, Virginia still exists there, and features curb service, homemade barbecue, and handmade ice cream cones.

Romance of Young Tigers

Romance of Young Tigers was an instrumental band from Dayton, OH that released two albums through Magic Bullet Records and is noted for DIY handmade or recycled packaging for albums for limited or unique runs.

September, 2008 - Marie (CD/LP) (Magic Bullet Records & self-Released, handmade)

Sam Scorer

On Lincoln's Brayford Pool a building, currently housing a Nando's, Prezzo and Handmade Burger Co. restaurants, that he designed in 1959 was originally a car showroom for the Lincolnshire Motor Company and then the music library for Lincolnshire County Council.

Shashibhushan Raychaudhury

The Samiti also recruited volunteers for social services such as nursing the sick; cremating; sell handmade soaps, padlocks from Shashida’s village and cottage industry products, on a cooperative basis; organise significant public functions as the Shivaji, Pratapaditya and Sitaram festivals.

Terminalia avicennioides

Bògòlanfini, a handmade Malian cotton fabric dyed yellow in wolo solution, made from the leaves of T.

The Toy Shop

Shelburne Museum’s collection of toys, which includes both European and American examples from the early nineteenth century through the first decades of the twentieth century, encompasses a broad range of both handmade and manufactured examples.

Tim Thorney

Some of these collaborations include producing The Rankins' 2001 album Song Dog, co-producing and Jimmy Rankin's 2003 album Handmade (he also co-wrote a track with Jimmy), and co-producing Alanis Morissette's 2004 album So-Called Chaos.

Urago

Urago was a famous "handmade" bicycle maker in the French bicycle industry located in the city of Nice, in the French Riviera on the Boulevard du Riquier.

拉麵

Lamian, handmade or hand-pulled Chinese noodles, and the dish made from these noodles


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