Cotton is the usual material for working attire, but fashionable ladies wear a chalvar made from a brocade or silk fabric over linen drawers.
But a handful of store owners have taken advantage of the slump, using unsold stock as raw material for work that blurs the line between decorative objects and art.
Tusks, the enlarged incisor teeth that are the raw material for worked ivory, are normally sawed off at the base by poachers, often while the elephant is not yet dead.
For one thing the improvisational cross-fertilizing of art mediums that Bearden helped pioneer via collage is more and more the norm; for another, paper has probably never been more popular as an art material, for work in both two and three dimensions.
We suggest indium tin oxide (ITO) as a promising material for working electrodes in optoelectrochemical sensors, owing to the rare combination of high electrical conductivity and optical transparency it presents.
The silty water of the river Avon flowing a few yards from the front door of Bristol's Arnolfini gallery is supplying some of the materials for works of art by Richard Long, the seminal land artist staging the first show in his native city in 15 years.
Alongside the fetishists and anti-fetishists, Internet literary culture has also seen the flourishing of a third group, one that celebrates books neither as precious physical objects nor as utilitarian vessels but uses them as the raw materials for works of art.
If you tend to rely heavily on reference materials for work or school, and you frequently drift outside of free Wi-Fi zones, you can consume a fair amount of data with your browser.
This paper aims at establishing the influence of non-stoichiometry and anodic oxidation on the electrochemical properties of the carbides WC, WC2C, Cr3C2 and Cr7C3 through a well-grounded choice of carbide materials for working out each of the problems.
