Diamond Traditions
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Diamond Traditions
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Author : Monique Dillard
language : en
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
Release Date : 2013
Diamond Traditions written by Monique Dillard and has been published by C&T Publishing Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Afghans (Coverlets) categories.
Here's a beautiful new way to indulge a love affair with fat quarters: 11 diamond-themed traditional quilts from Monique Dillard of Open Gate Quilts. Sophisticated diamond patterns use fat quarters as focus or background fabrics - making them the perfect way to use your favourite fat quarter bundles or scrappy fabrics. Diamond Traditions features 11 quilts that use easy blocks such as Flying Geese, Square in Square, and Half-Square Triangle, and with the clever shortcuts and streamlined techniques, piecing has never been easier!
Clarity Cut And Culture
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Author : Susan Falls
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2014
Clarity Cut And Culture written by Susan Falls and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS categories.
"Images of diamonds appear everywhere in American culture. And everyone who has a diamond has a story to tell about it. Our stories about diamonds not only reveal what we do with these tiny stones, but also suggest how we create value, meaning, and identity through our interactions with material culture in general.Things become meaningful through our interactions with them, but how do people go about making meaning? What can we learn from an ethnography about the production of identity, creation of kinship, and use of diamonds in understanding selves and social relationships? By what means do people positioned within a globalized political-economy and a compelling universe of advertising interact locally with these tiny polished rocks?This book draws on 12 months of fieldwork with diamond consumers in New York City as well as an analysis of the iconic De Beers campaign that promised romance, status, and glamour to anyone who bought a diamond to show that this thematic pool is just one resource among many that diamond owners draw upon to engage with their own stones. The volume highlights the important roles that memory, context, and circumstance also play in shaping how people interpret and then use objects in making personal worlds. It shows that besides operating as subjects in an ad-burdened universe, consumers are highly creative, idiosyncratic, and theatrical agents"--
The Mazzel Ritual
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Author : Dina Siegel
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2009-08-12
The Mazzel Ritual written by Dina Siegel and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-12 with Social Science categories.
The academic study of diamonds is as multi-faceted as the precious stones themselves. Mineralogists and geographers have written about them, as have historians and economists and students of art and fashion. They each shine their light on a different aspect of this source of luminous radiance. But who would venture to describe the entire complicated worldwide system starting in the diamond mines and ending with the consumers of Western metropolises? In The Mazzel Ritual: Culture, Customs and Crime in the Diamond Trade, Russian-Israeli cultural anthropologist and criminologist Dina Siegel follows the route of a diamond from the mines of Africa to the shops of Europe and the United States, as it passes through countless hands and places and is smuggled, stolen, cut, polished, sold, exchanged and, finally, worn as jewelry. In the course of this long and exciting journey, a wide range of people face all sorts of risks and criminality, as well as various moral and ethical judgments. Siegel describes the range of ethnic groups that are active in the diamond trade and the culture and customs that are specific to this business. She analyses the dangers and threats to the industry and aims to uncover the strategies and tactics to deal with them. Finally, this story of risk, trust and crime examines the vulnerability of diamond production and distribution to illicit and criminal activities. This book is about the diamond business itself as well as about those involved in it. It tells the story of people who simply cannot stay away from this expensive and alluring commodity.
Diamond Eternal Fire
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Author : Asharani Mathur
language : en
Publisher: books catalog
Release Date : 2006-01-01
Diamond Eternal Fire written by Asharani Mathur and has been published by books catalog this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-01 with Diamond jewelry categories.
For more than two thousand years and up until the eighteenth century, India was the only source of diamonds known to the world. This book, in five sections, looks at the diamond tradition in India from ancient times to the present. Through text and pictures its many aspects come to life: the myths and legends, the great stones, the fabled jewellery, the secrets of the trade and contemporary interpretations of the tradition. Lavishly illustrated with examples from museums, private collections and collections from jewelers, the book encapsulates the romance of the diamond in India.
The Diamond Sutra In Chinese Culture
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Author : Yongyou
language : en
Publisher: Buddha's Light Publishing
Release Date : 2010
The Diamond Sutra In Chinese Culture written by Yongyou and has been published by Buddha's Light Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Religion categories.
In The Diamond Sutra in Chinese Culture, Venerable Yong You examines the varied history of the Diamond Sutra and its profound effect upon Chinese Buddhism, as well as its wide-ranging impact on Chinese religion, culture, art, literature, folklore, and technology. Beginning from the introduction of the Diamond Sutra in China until the Song dynasty, Venerable Yong You delves deeply into the Dunhuang collections, comprised of the oldest Chinese Buddhist manuscripts in the world, to offer insightful new research and a compelling perspective on the influence of this very important text.
How To Buy A Diamond
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Author : Fred Cuellar
language : en
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Release Date : 2018-11-06
How To Buy A Diamond written by Fred Cuellar and has been published by Sourcebooks, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-06 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
Buying a diamond can be one of the most important and intimidating purchases you ever make. Whether you're getting engaged or buying for an anniversary, investment or "just because," How to Buy a Diamond will take the pressure and uncertainty out of getting the best diamond for your money. Newly revised and updated, How to Buy a Diamond is the only book on the market to include wholesalers' secret pricing charts that you, the public, never get to see! The charts are broken down by carat, clarity, and color —including the various types of color within each color grade. This eighth edition includes: Matching your funds with the perfect diamond The four Cs explained: clarity, color, cut and carat size Ring styles and settings Grade bumping: what it is and how to spot it Picking the right jeweler Jewelers' tricks of the trade Wholesaler' secret pricing charts! Praise for How to Buy a Diamond: "Finally, one of the top diamond experts breaks the silence and demystifies the world of diamonds for regular folk like you and me." —Gregory J.P. Godek, author of 1001 Ways to Be Romantic "Whenever anybody asks me about buying a diamond, I give them this book." —Rob Bates, National Jeweler
Diamond Traditions Quilt Playing Cards Display Point Of Purchase Carton With 12 Decks
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Author : Cheryl Arkison
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-08
Diamond Traditions Quilt Playing Cards Display Point Of Purchase Carton With 12 Decks written by Cheryl Arkison and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08 with Games & Activities categories.
Guns Germs Steel
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Author : Riley Quinn
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2017-07-05
Guns Germs Steel written by Riley Quinn and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with History categories.
In his 1997 work Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond marshals evidence from five continents and across 13,000 years of human history in an attempt to answer the question of why that history unfolded so differently in various parts of the globe. His results offer new explanations for why the unequal divisions of power and wealth so familiar to us today came into existence – and have persisted. Balancing materials drawn from a vast range of sources, addressing core problems that have fascinated historians, anthropologists, biologists and geographers alike – and blending his analysis to create a compelling narrative that became an international best-seller and reached a broad general market – required a mastery of the critical thinking skill of reasoning that few other scholars can rival. Diamond’s reasoning skills allow him to persuade his readers of the value of his interdisciplinary approach and produce well-structured arguments that keep them turning pages even as he refocuses his analysis from one disparate example to another. Diamond adds to that a spectacular ability to grasp the meaning of the available evidence produced by scholars in those widely different disciplines – making Guns, Germs and Steel equally valuable as an exercise in high-level interpretation.
Victorian Jewelry Identity And The Novel
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Author : Jean Arnold
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-16
Victorian Jewelry Identity And The Novel written by Jean Arnold and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-16 with History categories.
In this study of Victorian jewels and their representation, Jean Arnold explores the role material objects play in the cultural cohesion of the West. Diamonds and other gems, Arnold argues, symbolized the most closely held beliefs of the Victorians and thus can be considered "prisms of culture." Mined in the far reaches of the empire, they traversed geographical space and cultural boundaries, representing monetary value and evoking empire, class lineage, class membership, gender relations, and aesthetics. Arnold analyzes the many roles material objects fill in Western culture and surveys the cross-cultural history of the Victorian diamond, uncovering how this object became both preeminent and representative of Victorian values. Her close readings of Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone, George Eliot's Middlemarch, William Makepeace Thackeray's The Great Hoggarty Diamond, and Anthony Trollope's The Eustace Diamonds show gendered, aesthetic, economic, fetishistic, colonial, legal, and culturally symbolic interpretations of jewelry as they are enacted through narrative. Taken together, these divergent interpretations offer a holistic view of a material culture's affective attachment to objects. As the assigned meanings of jewels turn them into symbols of power, personal relationships, and valued ideas, human interactions with gems elicit emotional responses that bind the materialist culture together.
Once Upon A Diamond
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Author : Prince Dimitri
language : en
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Release Date : 2020-09-08
Once Upon A Diamond written by Prince Dimitri and has been published by Rizzoli Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-08 with Design categories.
A remarkable history of jewelry told through the beguiling stories of the royal families of Italy, Greece, Belgium, Russia, and Yugoslavia. Renowned jewelry designer Prince Dimitri of Yugoslavia recounts the enthralling exploits of his beloved family members and describes their extraordinary jewelry collections. Among the many royals whose stories are richly illustrated in this volume are his paternal grandparents Prince Regent Paul and Princess Olga of Yugoslavia; Grand Duke Vladimir and Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia; his great-grandparents Prince Nicolas and Princess Helen of Greece as well as his maternal grandparents King Umberto II and Queen Marie-José of Italy. The exquisite photography and family albums of Grand Duchess Elena of Russia (later Princess of Greece and Prince Dimitri's great-grandmother) present remarkable never-before-seen images of prerevolutionary life of the Russian imperial family, their court, and their many European royal family members and friends. This luxurious tome also includes exclusive and previously unpublished designs by Prince Dimitri, which juxtapose uncommon materials and color in imaginative yet timeless forms.