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Biography of Andrew Noble Prentice
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Andrew Novle Prentice studies in Spain were published in 1893 as the folio 'Renaissance Architecture and Ornament in Spain', dedicated to the Queen Regent, Dona Maria Christina. As an architect he has a great story of travel and art.
Fashion in the 1920s
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Western Fashion in the 1920s underwent modernisation with two distinctive periods, the Roaring Twenties and the Flapper style. Coco Chanel and Marlene Dietrich were major influences.
Biography of William Morris
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William Morris was a British textile designer, poet, novelist, translator and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts movement.
Biography of Jacobus Houbraken
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Jacobus Houbraken was a Dutch engraver, who was born in Dordrecht in the Netherlands.
Biography of Captain Thomas Brown
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Captain Thomas Brown FRSE FLS (1785 – 8 October 1862) was a British naturalist and malacologist. (zoologist specialising in the study of molluscs).
The History of Pochoir
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The word Pochoir is French for stencil and the pochoir process is essentially a stencilling process.