Word: beading
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...Verdura white-agate-and-gold-bead necklace ($3,550, Verdura New York...
...quality beads are just one Gem Palace specialty, and Kasliwal grabs several strands of garnets to demonstrate the differences. "This one is artisanal production, each bead carefully drilled, each one faceted by hand. The Tiffanys of the industry will buy this one, and the average worker could produce 20 or 30 beads a day," he says. A second strand looks duller and less uniform. "These have been tumbled in a machine and then finished. A worker can produce 800 of these a day." The artisanal strand wholesales for $70 to $80; the industrial one costs...
...Randall claims that these dimensions could be infinitely large provided that space has a warped geometry. In effect, we could be living in a three-dimensional pocket of higher dimensional space. Randall refers to these pockets in space as branes. Like a bead on a wire that can only move along one dimension, a brane may restrict our motion to three dimensions although other dimensions exist...
...World among them), is setting his sights on the wider world. And his latest collection (which can be viewed at kittijewelry.com) might just help him get there. "Contemporary ethnic arts," the phrase adopted by Kitti to describe his latest work, barely does justice to his audacious combination of ancient bead-working techniques and modern junk. Visitors to his "art space" (read: store), on Bangkok's rapidly gentrifying Silom Road, can find all manner of contemporary bric-a-brac?like stuffed toys, plastic bugs, crayons, dolls and Lego bricks?interwoven with Swarovski crystal, Venetian glass and semiprecious stones. Of the pieces...
...World among them), is setting his sights on the wider world. And his latest collection (which can be viewed at kittijewelry.com) might just help him get there. "Contemporary ethnic arts," the phrase adopted by Kitti to describe his latest work, barely does justice to his audacious combination of ancient bead-working techniques and modern junk. Visitors to his "art space" (read: store), on Bangkok's rapidly gentrifying Silom Road, can find all manner of contemporary bric-a-brac - like stuffed toys, plastic bugs, crayons, dolls and Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel...