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Arts & crafts

Arts & crafts comprises a multitude of activities and hobbies that involve making things with one's hands, usually from scratch. They can be sub-divided into 'handicrafts'( or traditional crafts ) that are fashioned in an old style using long practised techniques, and the rest which are more modern inventions that have become recent trends or fads.

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Terracotta warriors

Arts & crafts; Sculpture

The "Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses" is a collection of terracotta sculptures which represents the armies of Qin Shi Huang (the first Emperor of China). It is a form of funerary ...

statuette

Arts & crafts; Sculpture

A very small carved or molded sculpture of a person or an animal.

density

Arts & crafts; Sculpture

The mass of a substance per unit volume. Usually used in determining amounts of clay required for a project or a piece. Mathematically determine the total cubic inches of the ...

Rubber Duck

Arts & crafts; Sculpture

A giant floating sculpture designed by Dutch artist Florentijin Hofman. He built several ducks of various sizes, including the largest rubber duck in the world, measuring ...

sand art

Arts & crafts; Sculpture

The practice of modelling into an artistic, and sometimes complex, form. The two basic ingredients for sand art are sand and water. Most sand art takes place on a beach where both ...

Siwalima museum

Anthropology; Archaeology tools

Siwalima Museum is located about 5 km from the capital of Maluku province, Ambon, exhibiting various artifacts of Maluku culture and arts, some even dating back to prehistoric ...

chainsaw art

Arts & crafts; Sculpture

An art form that combines the modern technology of the chainsaw with the ancient art of woodcarving. Also called chainsaw carving, the process involves fashioning or ornamenting ...