Forage for early-20th-century antiques, used books and a jumble of odds and ends.
It has dozens of galleries and studios, along with cafes, restaurants and funky shops selling antiques, used books, maps and prints, photographs and even artifacts from Ottoman courts.
Metallic leaf can also be used for antiquing using a special technique, or for completely covering the item with leaf.
Brecciated, coloured marbles, onyx marble, and verd antique are used principally for interior decoration and for novelties.
Typically, Japanese tissues, pure paper pulps, archival papers, and stable antique papers, used in combination with wheat- and rice-starch pastes, can be used for this purpose.
You can shop all day in antique shops, used bookstores, clothing and consignment shops, order up a massage, and even take in a yoga class.
Mr. Cutler makes do in a 168-square-foot space that is crammed to the ceiling with antique radios, used electronics and his paintings.
It transpires they are antique slippers used in the foot-binding process to which Chinese women were subjected: "I make art out of them.
Start with the antique and used rough outerwear, like parkas and army uniforms, at Strongarm, which also sells utilitarian Civil War campaign lamps, old carpenter's workbenches and mellow horse blankets.
Property values have grown in this charming town -- which has one of the best antique and used bookstores in New England -- but in spite of that, prices still seem dirt cheap to a city type.
