Términos

Jars, sometimes airtight, used for storing food or any other items.

A brown, sticky, aromatic resin obtained from trees of the genus Liquidambar, including L. orientalis, native to Turkey. A white solid powder that forms in the steam distillate obtained from storax is polystyrene. Storax resin is sometimes used as a mounting media for microscope slides. For the a brown, aromatic resin obtained from the genus Styrax, use "benzoin." Resins from both Sytrax and Liquidambar trees were formerly called "storax," but "storax" is no longer used for resin of genus Styrax.

In architecture, measurements of height equivalent to one story.

Short written or oral narrative accounts composed for the entertainment of the listener or reader; usually refer to imaginary events, but may sometimes refer to real events.

Literature comprising stories, often children's stories, told in rhyming verse.

Shutters of various types, designed or used to provide protection for doors and windows from severe wind and weather.

Pipes, typically made of lenths of angular or curved sheet metal, used as a stove chimney or to connect a stove to a flue.

Úsese con respecto a un estilo de fotografía de principios del siglo XX.

The strengthening by plastic deformation of a material that is strained to beyond its elastic limit. It occurs because of dislocation generation within the material's crystal structure.

Forks used for stretching webbing or wet leather.

Chairs designed for use at the beach, having a hood for protection from the sun and wind. May be made of wicker, wood and cloth, or other materials. Originally made of wicker in the 19th century, based on wicker armchair furniture with covered high rising hoods that had been created by basketmakers for centuries.

Tools used for cutting a strip of leather to a uniform width. The gauge of the blade is set and fixed, and when the tool is run down the side of a straight piece of leather it makes a parallel cut further in.

Tools used to shape the tongues of belts or the end of straps, and save the trouble of cutting an accurate curve by hand.

Movimiento cultural de Italia desde 1920 hasta la década de 1940, que rechazó tendencias modernistas en el arte y literatura. Los defensores del movimiento Strapaese anima un estilo de vida provincial y un enfoque en el pasado italiano. El movimiento se asoció tanto con el nacionalismo y el fascismo.

Proceso por el cual se desprende un fresco cuando el yeso sobre el cual se encuentra está muy deteriorado. La capa de color es retirada con un adhesivo potente sin retirar cantidades excesivas de yeso.