In Scandinavia many bowls and cooking vessels have been found carved from soapstone, or steatite, a mineral that is very heat tolerant. |
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Above each doorway a window with sidelights is capped by a soapstone lintel. |
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For years, small pieces of soapstone and marble have been hacked from the highway for use in carvings. |
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Other than ivory and wood, many other materials were used like bone, horn, shell, amber, soapstone or ceramic. |
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As well as the soapstone mentioned above, Kentish ragstone was exported to Europe for building. |
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The raw material source is a steatitic talc, also called soapstone, which originates from the thermal metamorphism of siliceous dolomitic rocks. |
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Today all these figures are carved in wood, but materials such as bone, tusk, soapstone and reindeer antler are not commonly used. |
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Moulds could also be made by carving out of stone, usually soapstone or slate and occasionally old Roman tiles. |
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Without soapstone, many people will be unable to make a living, and families will suffer when the steady flow of cash ceases. |
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It is the only country which still regularly uses cookware carved from soapstone. |
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New surfaces are made from chemical compounds and are designed to mimic granite, limestone, marble, slate, or soapstone. |
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They'll focus on smaller vessels, such as outfitters' boats and boats carrying soapstone. |
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Production procedures across granite, marble, sandstone and soapstone, along with case studies complete the picture. |
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In the center of the altar, to the back, was a lovely image of the Goddess, carved from soapstone. |
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Art gives practice at developing creativity and manipulating different materials such as soapstone. |
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Billions of years old, soapstone is a natural rock based on magnesite and talc. |
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James Houston was an artist who sojourned in Port Harrison in 1948 to paint and discovered the Inuit art of soapstone carving. |
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The stone is like soapstone, very slick and quite soft, easy to carve. |
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Since pipes played an important role in the lives of the Indians, many are elaborately carved or decorated wood, with bowls of finely engraved soapstone. |
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Inside, a carver kneels on the ground sanding a piece of soapstone. |
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It felt soft, almost like soapstone, but had the look of clay. |
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The soapstone is as soft as goose down.... The bladders of gulls are filled with nuggets of jargoon. |
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Nat works in soapstone, whale bone, narwhal ivory, walrus tusk, and horn from the musk ox. |
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Zimbabweans hawk wire or soapstone sculptures, Ghanaians sell kente cloth, Mozambicans bring sacks of cashews. |
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In Taloyoak we've worked with the local community to access a quarry and bring the soapstone back by snowmobile. |
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Inuit soapstone carving by artist Nowya Quinuajuk, donated to the Canadiana Fund. |
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Internationally renowned soapstone carvings produced by community people are available for sale at the Kimik Co-op or from the carvers directly. |
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The heat storage capacity of Geo in soapstone is shown in the diagram below. |
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Inuit have a largely unrestricted right to harvest carving stone, defined as serpentinite, argillite or soapstone, that is suitable for carving. |
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Then I would pour it into bullet molds that had been drilled into a piece of soapstone. |
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Kenojuak Ashevak pioneered modern Inuit art with etchings, prints and soapstone sculptures. |
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There is the option to change the appearance of your Handöl 35T stove by replacing the glass top with a soapstone top. |
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Grandfather is quiet for a time, turning the soapstone over and over in his weathered hands. |
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Originally known as the Spanish River, it was renamed in 1824, probably for its colour derived in places from green soapstone banks along its course. |
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Both the large fire box and the use of soapstone make this model an ideal heat storage stove whose warmth successfully creates a comfortable and cosy atmosphere for hours. |
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Many of these goods were also traded within the Viking world itself, as well as goods such as soapstone and whetstone. |
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East Asian seals are carved from a variety of hard materials, including wood, soapstone, sea glass and jade. |
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Inuit art such as soapstone carvings is one of Nunavut's most important industries. |
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The Chumash were skilled artisans: they made a variety of tools out of wood, whalebone, and other materials, fashioned vessels of soapstone, and produced some of the most complex basketry in native North America. |
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All groups made baskets, and a quarry on Santa Catalina Island provided soapstone that tribal members made into such items as pots and scoops, ceremonial vessels, artistic carvings, beads, and ornaments. |
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Steatite, known technically as chlorite and commonly known as soapstone, was used for only a few utilitarian stone items, such as these lamps, cooking pots, and incense burners, due to its ability to absorb and conduct heat. |
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The different versions of this model leave no wish unfulfilled. With a chimney exhaust pipe connection on top or at the rear, complete steel wall construction, top plate in steel or soapstone or entirely soapstone. |
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Modern Zimbabwean sculptors in soapstone have achieved considerable international success. |
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A soapstone fireplace designed in a very modern and straight-lined way. |
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Visitors to the exhibit are greeted by a large-scale reproduction of a petroglyph site from the eastern Arctic, a soapstone cliff covered with carvings representing human or human-like faces. |
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We also invite you to attend a workshop with sculptor and stone carver Pia Moorrees, where you can work with aerated concrete, alabaster or soapstone. |
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Brian, I think we're all curious about the soapstone quarrying. |
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Houston was encouraging Inuit of the Cape Dorset area to make soapstone carvings and, later, prints and drawings, to be sold in the cities of southern Canada and abroad. |
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Thule culture is characterized by a very different material culture that includes the bow drill, ulu, bow and arrow, kayak and umiaq as well as soapstone lamps and containers. |
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This soapstone was made by a local artist near the Soper River. |
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Among the Inuit of the far north, traditional carving styles in ivory and soapstone are still continued. |
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The hole through the cylinder must have been drilled, but its makers surely needed glass or primitive spectacles to indent this extraordinary detail onto a soapstone seal scarcely an inch in length. |
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Pre-Dorset culture is associated with a group of artifacts that includes burins, narrow projectile points, microblades, lateral semi-circular blades, harpoon heads and round and oval soapstone containers, among other items. |
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Arctic Char have also been an inspiration to many Inuit artists who have painted and carved Arctic Char-like fish in their drawings or carvings of ivory and soapstone. |
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Most were repopulated in the 7th century, which also saw the construction of several fishing hamlets and a boom in trade of iron and soapstone across the North Sea. |
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In modern times prints and figurative works carved in relatively soft stone such as soapstone, serpentinite, or argillite have also become popular. |
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