Sentences with phrase «early use of wood»

Not exact matches

Earlier this year Quebec introduced a wood charter, which doesn't force but strongly encourages the use of lumber as the chief material in provincial projects.

He still uses a Sher - wood, but is now an early adopter of the firm's newest niche line of ultralight composite sticks.

They use solid wood instead of fiberboard, with a sophisticated style that's based on classic designs that first appeared in the United States and France in the early 1800's contrasted against a sleek, modern finish.

Crafted after the wood and leather benches of the early 1900s often used by jockeys to change their riding boots, our ottoman is crafted with thick legs, slatted shelves and antique - bronze nailhead trim.

It continues 2005's early obsession with home invasion and falling under siege in broken sanctuaries, and it uses mirrors, paths into the woods, and dark hollows with what at first appears to be an admirable level of Yeatsian «Stolen Child» smarts.

For example, students saw Sir Donald Bradman in his early days, developing cricket skills in front of a corrugated iron shed wall, using a stump of wood to hit the cricket ball.

Later, cross-sections of tree trunks were used - the growth rings and cracks in the wood providing circular and radial divisions within the target (the current system of numbers wasn't standardized until the early 20th century).

Post Tree - A historic milk wood tree that's been used as a kind of post office since the early 1500s.

They are supplemented by two early paintings, several drawings and, most important, 23 sculptures that sum up her various sculptural uses of wood, bronze, marble, resin and stuffed fabric.

Some early work, which consists of scraps of wood, was made on the roof of her building, which the artist used as a studio.

Since the early 1990s, Pedro Cabrita Reis has made masterful use of architectural materials including cement, bricks, wood, steel, metal, beams and actual fragments of architecture, which he juxtaposes with elements from the visual arts such as enamels, pigment and neon light to create poetic, imagination - led works of great political value, capable of revealing memories associated with the context in which they are located and from where they come.

For each of the Blackboard Tableau works (2007 — 15), she collected an early - twentieth - century writing slate and then used wood, paint, and pastel to create an identical twin.

The earliest examples frequently featured «the systematic use of modular internal divisions (ellipses, parallelograms, checker and hexagonal arrangements)», and used a variety of materials including formica, brass, and wood.

His early work includes sculptural works that used common objects such as a low dining table as a material of «wood», and a series of wood sculpture «TSUCHINABURI Factory Product» that used matchsticks, also a common object.

Often working with every day and found materials such as fabric, glass, wood, metal and ceramics, the artist typically makes small to medium scale organic constructions that combine an almost «Beuysian» shamanistic or ritualistic use of materials with the formalism of early modernist sculptural objects.

While his early works in the 1970s were mostly created using recovered objects, in his later work Cragg has used more traditional materials, such as wood, bronze and marble, continually renewing his repertoire of forms, reaching towards an abstract appreciation of the human body.

For each of the two Blackboard Tableau works (2007 — 15 and 2011 — 15) Celmins collected a nineteenth - or early - twentieth - century writing slate and then used wood, paint, and pastel to create an identical twin.

One of the most versatile ways of using wood is to turn it into plywood, which has been used in some very surprising ways since the early 1800s.

Early TRL projects focused on establishing long tree - ring records from temperature - sensitive boreal forest locations in North American for studies of global change, using dendrochronologically dated wood, to investigate the value of stable isotope ratios in cellulose as paleo - thermometers and developing the necessary computer software for processing the data.

Three - quarters of the global population uses just 10 percent of the world's energy, 1 billion people lack access to electricity, and 3 billion cook their food over dung, wood, and charcoal, leading to millions of early deaths.

It is a bit too early to be using the word «Spring» in my neck of the woods, however, it is never too early to revamp your job search.

My friend, Lucy, helped us find these old wood corbels earlier this year, and we're so excited to use them on our soon - to - be country kitchen island: Right now, the island doesn't reflect our personalities at all, so we're going to have fun giving it a farmhouse / cottage - style makeover over the next couple of months.

Founded by a German cabinetmaker in the early 1800s, Thonet is remembered as the pioneer of the bentwood technique — a process that uses heat and moisture to mold solid wood into sculptural, streamlined shapes.

My dad was a wood worker and I learned early on to only use strong wood — poplar instead of pine boards.