Much of the rhetoric surrounding the World Wide Web celebrates the advantages of the "virtual" (and by implication, immaterial) world. In contrast, we see the Web as potentially enhancing the practice of handicrafts. This paper reports on recent developments in implementing a "Platonic Solids Applet" in Java to permit students to select and decorate folding nets for polyhedral solids made from ...

Handicrafts are an income generating activity for many women in Egypt, though as producers these women are often receiving the lowest return in the trading chain. This research analyses the potential for Egyptian craftswomen to use information and communication technologies (ICTs) to improve their earnings. The research shows that while ICTs could be a useful tool for marketing and selling thei...

From the beginning of time, Indians have been very skilled in Creative arts and Handicrafts. There are varied handicrafts India that unique only to our Artisans. The Handicrafts always associated with Tourism popular Tourists. But recent time support by Indian Government Artisans these gaining visibility prominence. is demand from people for their Home décor Offices also Tourists who visit Indi...

the packaging of handicrafts and traditional artworks is a definite solution to the problems of this industry. because a standard and ideal package will create a link between the customer's imagination and retailer and will ultimately have a high influence on the customer's interest to purchase the item. this will have a great impact on the overall handicrafts' sale in national and internationa...

Cape Dorset is a community on BaSn Island in Canada's Northwest Territories. An art co-operative the West Baffin Eskimo Co-operative (W.B.E.C.) was formed there in 1959 to encourage the production of drawings, prints, sculpture, and other handicrafts. The Co-operative purchases hundreds of drawings from artists annually and selects and translates some of these into prints for its yearly collect...

abstract sun was always in special place among iran and world myths that can be know as the eldest station for worshiping sun, cross or swastika is the most common face which has been turned to capital for the craftsmen and artists of the various eras in order to decorate handicrafts beside other various images of sun.  this   epidiascope is one of the eldest ancient epidiascope and it can be s...