Sentences with phrase «often made by hand»

Traditional colorful discount area rugs are often made by hand.

Often made by hand using luxury materials, including marble and other natural stones, semi-precious stones and metals, they can be a pricey choice, but even a small splashback, feature wall panel or «rug effect» on a floor can add interest to a wet room.

Not exact matches

On one hand, going too far to the rules - based side will lead to an organization that is too rigid, with employees often doing things by rote that no longer make sense.

Qualities of restraint and timidity are often conveyed by slightly hollowing the hand as if making a vow, moving it to and fro lightly, and swaying the shoulders in unison.

On the other hand, all too often Christians have managed to make the sacrament an occasional appendage to what is in fact a nonsacramental Christianity, by reason of their failure to grasp the great truth that it is «the gospel in action,» as well as by reason of their failure to demand and make use of frequent occasions for its celebration.

Often, pastes must be made in two or three batches, and then further mixed by hand.

He can, with difficulty, make out his own hand, but the cards in the dummy and each card played by the others at the table must often be called aloud.

While Wenger has overseen a substantial change in Arsenal's philosophy and played a major role in their move from Highbury to the Emirates Stadium, Dyche has also had a hand in how Burnley have built the foundations for future success of the pitch, with the # 10.6 million Gawthorpe training ground redevelopment progressing well and other improvements made to the infrastructure of the club, often at Dyche's behest, paid for by the Premier League cash he has played such a huge role in securing.

Certainly there are not parties every day at school or birthday cupcakes but candy is actually handed out quite often at my daughter's school as a reward by her teacher and this may be enough to make the kids not eat their fruits and veggies.

These organizations, run by volunteers, collect new and used cloth diapers, often even making or repairing them, to help families who need a helping hand.

They need to be able to make pin - point passes, often over long distances, stop («settle») a ball by using their feet, chest and other parts of their body (not the hands of course), pass with the front and back of the foot.

Artisan Leather is clearly very inspired by making personal items for people to cherish, «I most enjoy making my hand stitched leather notebooks: Not only are they pleasing to create, but they often become a very special keepsake to their owners, especially when given as a gift.

Worse, they often try to «help» by putting their hands on the child or the carrier when they see parents positioning their kids; something that actually can make those children less safe by throwing off their parent's ability to feel and maneuver their carrier properly.

Those of us living in temperate and tropical climates, on the other hand, usually make vitamin D indirectly by exposing skin to strong sun — hardly an option in the Arctic winter — and by consuming fortified cow's milk, to which the indigenous northern groups had little access until recent decades and often don't tolerate all that well.

It is also possible to make a homemade version of the pads often handed out in hospitals by pouring natural witch hazel over organic cotton pads (and even adding herbs or aloe for additional soothing).

I don't like making outfits inspired solely by necessity but when you've got a «closet orphan» on your hands, you often don't have a choice.

With a giant god like hand, Whedon destroys viewer expectation by carefully crafting the perfect satire film with a wit, intelligence and depth that is often lacking in the films it makes fun of.

The covers seem too similar side by side... on the other hand, I often say you should make your book look, feel and sound like the bestsellers in your category.

Going hand - in - hand with bad underwriting was faulty appraising, often by unscrupulous home appraisers who had the same incentive as lenders and originators to make sure the loans closed.

A few of these are broken with no relation to the episode at hand, but often enough the show makes a valiant effort to actually present a suitable moral in the story, such as «don't judge a person by their appearance, cause they might be secretly an interpol agent.»

Around this time, Byers moved to Japan for nine years and his subsequent works and performance pieces — one of which was the 100mph drive past the Guggenheim — were often inspired by its culture, in particular the dramatised unfolding of lengthy pieces of hand - made paper.

Roberta Smith worries about the fate of art «made by one person out of intense personal necessity, often by hand.»

David Shrigley: Brain Activity showcases the diversity of the artist's work - seemingly amateurish, crude drawings, hand - crafted sculptures made of unusual materials, and installations characterized by incongruities of scale - offering insightful and often surreal commentary on the absurdities of life, death and everything in between.

Others work in sculpture, often fashioning their works from materials that belie the pedestrian nature of the subject - Ai Weiwei's jar of hundreds of sunflower seeds, made from hand - painted cast porcelain, or the work of Yoshihiro Suda, who creates weeds that «grow» from the gallery floor, carved by hand from magnolia wood.

I often design books by hand, making a hand - drawn design template which forms a template foundation for the designers to build on.

The work on paper often plays off of a grid, evocative of an urban topography, made irregular by Morris's hand and the textural effects on the paper.

Not born of nature but made by human hands, the works, themselves contorted by the surrounding landscape, represent a society uprooted by industrialisation and modernisation, illustrating how progress can often come at the expense of cultural and societal well - being.

Shirana Shahbazi makes photographs in classical art - historical genres, including portraiture, still life, and landscape, often translating and repeating her images in different mediums: hand - knotted carpets, for instance, and photorealistic billboards painted by artisans hired in her native Iran.

In her February 10, 2010 article in The New York Times, art critic Roberta Smith, discussing current trends in the «art world» says, «What's missing is art that seems made by one person out of intense personal necessity, often by hand.

Her sculpture, often large installations, is informed by an ongoing interest in the anonymity of women's piece - work and has evolved into an obsessive repetition of form, whether in hand - crafted roses, made petal by petal, or in glazed and fired cowrie shells made from watermelon molds that evoke both ancient artifacts and open - ended metaphors for the female body.

On the other hand, because my paintings are often largely covered by masking material, I find myself making aesthetic decisions based on incomplete information.

Virtual reality is often exploited for its high - tech gloss and interactivity, Wolfson focuses not on the technology but on its capacity to isolate the viewer.Rafa Esparza in «Figure Ground: Beyond the White Field» (2017), built this rotunda out of adobe bricks made by hand from a combination of clay, horse dung, hay, and water from the Los Angeles River.

On the other hand, though, it often feels futile — especially when I'm surrounded by folks sipping through plastic straws from their plastic cups that may or may not make it to an appropriate trash receptacle.

It's more often the beneficiary of implicit or explicit government subsidies to make it more affordable for the coal industry to operate (the land is practically given to them for free, they get tax expenditures hand over fist, their roads are most often built for them by the state, they're exempted from waste - disposal regulations, allowed to dump and run, and use some of the most tyrannical and abject labor standards in the world).

This is notable, Fisher says, because other bankruptcy resources are often organized by Bankruptcy Code section, making it harder to find what is needed for the matter at hand.

Arguing in favor of the law banning lying is the sad irony that quite often those with their hands on the very levers of democracy, free elections and the right to vote — candidates, their handlers, public and special interest groups — don't trust the public to make the right decision based on an honest and robust debate over the issues, but instead find it incumbent to win by smearing the opposing candidate.

On the one hand, the age of clients often puts practitioners in a guardianship role where decisions regarding experiences have to be made by the practitioner on behalf of children and young people, especially where safety is concerned.

But in today's era of mass production, custom designed and hand crafted furnishings have all but gone by the wayside — replaced by look - alike furnishings often made in off - shore factories.