Sentences with phrase «rubber trees in»

For a recent exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery in London, Upritchard experimented with both form and material, creating a group of dinosaurs out of papier - mâché or an earthy matter drawn from rubber trees in Brazil called balata and displaying them on simple yet elegant fold - out tables produced by the Italian company Olivetti on customized steel bases.
With characteristic efficiency, Ford planted rubber trees in tight formation.

Not exact matches

Talalay latex is produced by a unique process that involves extracting the rubber from trees in a sustainable way and then transforming that natural rubber into the latex used in a mattress like PangeaBed's.
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains All the cops have wooden legs And the bulldogs all have rubber teeth And the hens lay soft - boiled eggs The farmers» trees are full of fruit And the barns are full of hay Oh I'm bound to go Where there ain't no snow Where the rain don't fall The winds don't blow In the Big Rock Candy Mountains.
Apple trees heavy with fruit, small rubber boots tumbling around in the leaves, warm porridge in the morning, furry sweaters, cinnamon sticks, pitch dark nights and rainy afternoons.
Mono - cropping exposes the soil surface allowing faster transpiration rate and reducing moisture, in the context of rubber plantations the rubber tappers suffered most since there is a significant reduction of moisture there is a dramatic decrease in sap supply of rubber trees
Somewhere on a red dirt road flanked by corrugated tin lean - tos painted blue / green like a sea that is nowhere to be found, by waxy green leaves of false banana trees and round huts the same color as the ground, miles every day she walks in rubber flip flops toward the well and back again, red kerchief over her braids, carrying a burden of water, dreaming a shared dream.
In addition to being non-toxic, rubber is a natural resource, which comes from rubber trees.
Some ingredients from just one of the manufacturers we carry: — Recycled Rubber wood (clean, natural rubber wood recycled from rubber trees no longer able to produce latex); — Non-Chemical Preservative Wood (stabilized using a chemical - free kiln - drying process); — Non-Formaldehyde Glue (toys assembled using a non-formaldehyde glue in place of the traditional toxic wood glue); — Water Based Dye (non-toxic, water based dyes to add accent colors to products, containing no heavy metal elements such as lead, mercury, etc..)
You no longer have to choose because Essentia makes the only rubber tree sap based memory foam mattresses in the World and they're now in Berkeley.
Made from natural rubber from the Hevea Brasiliensi tree, our top pick is a leader in hygienic design.
In order to lay cables underwater, somebody needed first to discover the only kind of rubber — gutta - percha, from a tree native to Malaysia — that could waterproof the wire effectively, and somebody else needed to invent a machine that could apply gutta - percha evenly to inconceivable lengths of cable.
They succeeded in proving that the rubber extracted from dandelion is of the same quality as its cousin from the rubber tree.
As early as the 6th century AD, the Mayans were daubing their garments with a milky liquid from rubber trees — latex — to make them waterproof, according to John Loadman, a chemist specialising in the history of rubber.
Fox's research, funded by the National Science Foundation and NASA, was designed to test his theory that rubber trees, which are exotics from the South America, differ from native vegetation in that they suck up most of their water when the soil is the driest at the beginning of the monsoon season.
Because their experiments were cut short, he has set up new weather towers in Thailand and Cambodia to monitor how much water rubber trees absorb compared with native species.
He found an interesting shrub in the Brazilian rain forest related to the rubber tree.
Natural latex is the milky fluid that's extracted from the bark of rubber trees grown in Southeast Asia.
Latex in its purest form is a fluid obtained from the rubber tree.
The grounds are bare; the trees have died; the rubber tiles on the walkways, in their garish pink and yellow, are cracked and curling.
If you're not desperate for a beachfront spot, then try Hill House, found in a shaded rubber - tree plantation setting up a steep hill from Tha Khao beach.
Bicycling in crowded Bangkok, along wharfs where boats are built by hand, between plantations with rubber, palm and banana trees and along touristic beach resorts.
There is a rubber tree native to the Belize mainland (Mayan name «yax - ha or «kiik - che», and in Spanish «hule»), but it is not related to the tree on Ambergris Caye.
Since the rubber tree was not found in the highlands of the Aztec Empire, every six months 16,000 lumps of raw rubber were imported from the Gulf lowland, most of it for making rubber balls.
Located on the beautiful island of Koh Mak, Bamboo Hideaway is a cosy, boutique style resort built in an aging rubber tree plantation using natural materials.
Plywood, corrugated cardboard, rubber, drywall made of gypsum and other sheet materials are refashioned in a way that evokes organic forms and natural occurrences, such as tree - ring growth, tectonic movement, geological strata and flowing magma.
Upritchard recently began making a group of dinosaur sculptures — using either papier - mâché or balata, a brown rubber drawn from trees in Brazil.
She met that goal in 2010, when she was awarded a patent for her «dumpling planter,» a pouch made of rubber waterproofing membrane, with an internal drainage system, that cinches looser or tighter at the top as needed around a plant or a tree and has the pleasing appearance of a dumpling.
But the most startling display may be the one in his living room: He has mixed works from his approximately 200 - piece collection — a comically large bright pink rubber phallus by Sarah Lucas; unusual drawings by Paul Thek in yellow Plexiglas frames; a heavy, stone - patterned gray canvas by Peter Halley; an upright cannon by Valentin Carron; an array of silk screens by the reclusive Cady Noland — with a resin prototype of his first tree.
Helen Marten Becoming branch, 2014 Welded steel, stitched fabric, plastic, cast rubber, airbrushed wood, tree stump, rope, walnut, truck tyre, burnt bark, glass marble, string 57 x 67 x 41 1⁄3 in (144.78 x 170.18 x 110.07 cm)
In another, a blazing orange ceiling spans a plantation room in which verandas open on either side to reveal surreally opposing landscapes — to the right, a Louisiana Mississippi River Road plantation, and to the left, a south Vietnamese rubber tree grovIn another, a blazing orange ceiling spans a plantation room in which verandas open on either side to reveal surreally opposing landscapes — to the right, a Louisiana Mississippi River Road plantation, and to the left, a south Vietnamese rubber tree grovin which verandas open on either side to reveal surreally opposing landscapes — to the right, a Louisiana Mississippi River Road plantation, and to the left, a south Vietnamese rubber tree grove.
Diurnal variation in stem girth as affected by three different ranges (0.43, 1.78 and 2.11 kPa) of air vapour pressure deficit (VPD) under minimum soil water stress was studied in mature rubber trees (Hevea brasiliensis) in Northeast Thailand.
Forests in Asia, home to elephants, tigers and other endangered species — are often cleared to make room for growing rubber trees.
Beekeepers have to remove a small amount from the hives each year as a way to maintain them, and this is what Huissoud re-uses in her collection — a glistening black variety of propolis that comes from the resin of rubber trees.
The Sleep On Latex toppers are made with 100 % natural latex, sourced from rubber tree plantations in Sri Lanka, which is then processed into latex foam using the Dunlop process.
They are made from natural milk from rubber trees that have been tapped in Liberia.
WHOOPS, there went another rubber tree plant — or maybe registrant overboard (falling off the stage); yell for the life rafts; we're in deep deep water, PED.
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