Sentence examples for handcrafts from inspiring English sources

Cubans selling handcrafts to tourists have been told to stop if the materials are not available in state-run shops, where all supplies are supposed to be purchased.

While other manufacturers have converted to machine-driven processes that can yield a hundred pianos every day, Steinway handcrafts a fraction of that number, using many of the same tools and techniques from a century ago.

The ancient Greek town, which is only 12 kilometers from Ephesus, a leading ancient historical site in Turkey and a biblical location where the Virgin Mary is said to have once stayed, offers an authentic Aegean experience with good local wine, fine olive oil and traditional handcrafts.

She rented a tumbledown 1799 stone house at 421 East 61st Street, gave the rooms a pre-Revolutionary cast and began giving classes in handcrafts there.

Across the Hudson from North Bergen, in SoHo, Mauricio Banchieri has seen a similar outpouring of concern among the well-heeled clientele at his store, Puro Chile, a sleek new showcase for Chilean wine, gourmet foods and elegant handcrafts.

Kristy Caylor, Maiyet's co-founder and president, worked on knitwear in Peru, highlighting the handcrafts of the country as the brand does in many other locations — for example, batik prints came from Indonesia and carved bone jewelry from India.

It's as if nothing has changed, and they're back in an age where all functional objects took time to handcraft, and 99p pile-em-high-sell-em-cheap stores were an untold craze of the future.

The lines are short but move at a gentle pace and need to be read slowly, as the verse drifts back and forth over its country setting like a long-legged fly on a stream.Above all, and this is an odd thing to say of words on a page, the book feels like handcrafted work.

The trick, he explains, is to abandon "handcrafted" teaching methods for scalable ones: online course materials and tutors; star teachers' lessons broadcast by satellite; tightly specified franchise agreements with hundreds of local teaching centres staffed by moderators.

The lines and dots became large penciled grids, exactingly and laboriously handcrafted, overlaid with dabs of paint or gold leaf.By 1964, she simplified further.

The appeal of handcrafting in the internet age is undeniable, agrees Stuart Brockman, an engineer trained at Imperial College who threw in a technology career 18 years ago to bind books at his father's firm in Oxfordshire.Bookbinders view themselves as craftspeople, combining traditional skills with a contemporary design sensibility.