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...available. Even among reproductions of good art, there are great differences in quality. Technically, there is no sure way to tell a good from a bad reproduction. The four chief methods of art reproduction all have advantages and disadvantages, depend ultimately on the eye. hands and consciences of the craftsmen who use them. The techniques...
...Horites were excellent craftsmen. They made fine pottery and effective tools out of bone, flint and copper. The copper they smelted from ore out of the same deposits south of the Dead Sea that King Solomon mined many centuries later. They pulverized it with massive stones and roasted it in furnaces under a forced draught from blowpipes...
...small factory outside Pavia, his 120 craftsmen carefully hand-machined each part, painstakingly fitted the parts together. Even by these old-fashioned methods, Necchi was turning out 60,000 machines a year in prewar days. World War II cut production to 60 machines a day and cost the company 400 million lire ($4,000,000) in war damages. But at war's end, Necchi executives dug out a stock of sewing machines they had hidden from the Germans, and with them, went after the export market...
Many small yards have turned to operating a "marina," a sort of marine filling station, repair shop and soft-drink stand. But this would be too much of a comedown for the Nevins yard. The 50 custom craftsmen that Nevins trained are now looking for jobs where standards are lower and materialism higher...
...until last year, the Park Service had a regulation against sales of foreign-made handicrafts by concessionaires in national parks, but the ban was lifted in keeping with the Eisenhower Administration's policy of freer trade. The Indians protest that the imported beadwork is phony. But the Navaho craftsmen themselves work with factory-made beads imported from Italy and Czechoslovakia...