They tried to recruit the most famous poets and artisans.

Today's videos focus on the artisans around the world still making shoes by hand.

Online shopping has grown exponentially both for major retailers and small artisans and traders.

The area is famous for its small artisans and merchants, including many silk shops.

I continued studying craft traditions and collaborating with artisans, next in Lithuania with lace makers.

In his vision, self employed artisans, peasants, and cooperatives would trade their products on the market.

Also check out Fenua for photographs of Tahitian beauty queens and local artisans, to name a few.

The influx of Jewish artisans and merchants quickly transformed it into an important commercial and industrial center.

Suburbs for traders and artisans sprang up, who, after the 13th century, began to influence the municipal government.

Italian artisans, brought to Washington to help in constructing the U.S. Capitol, carved the decorative stonework on both porticos.

Traditional Japanese crafts are also major industry of Kyoto, most of which are run by artisans in small plants.

Resident of the famed Brazilian city of artists and artisans, Embu das Artes , Negahamburguer spoke with Global Voices by email

(2008) 'By Our Direction and For Our Use ' The Queen's Patronage of Artists and Artisans seen through her Household Accounts.

However, he continued to oppose concentrations of wealth and property, arguing for small scale property ownership associated with peasants and artisans.

The web portal monburkina wants to promote the traditional culture of Burkina Faso by creating opportunities for artists, artisans and tourist guides.

It employed the best artisans in the country and was completed in 1821 by Molla's son, who was also Sulejman Bargjini's grandnephew.

The scribal profession had companion professions, the painters and artisans who decorated reliefs and other relics with scenes, personages, or hieroglyphic text.

She was the friend of slaves, sinners, artisans and the downtrodden, but she also listened to the prayers of the wealthy, maidens, aristocrats and rulers.

This communal space, with a view of the Guayama mountains, nourishes the vitality of the artisans, historians, poets and friends who come to share their passions.

The turn of the century building that Harpo called the first real home they ever knew (in his memoir Harpo Speaks ) was populated with European immigrants, mostly artisans.

The Empress also aided in recruiting Italian physicians, engineers, professors, pharmacists, nurses, artists, artisans and qualified workers with the goal of improving public education and public health in Brazil.

While Venice in the 17th century had the monopoly on the manufacture of mirrors, Colbert succeeded in enticing a number of artisans from Venice to make the mirrors for Versailles.

During the Industrial Revolution, the industrialist replaced the merchant as a dominant factor in the capitalist system and affected the decline of the traditional handicraft skills of artisans, guilds, and journeymen.

Estação do Artesão (Artist's station), located at the former railway station the old station, just beside the fairground Patio de Eventos Chucre Mussa Zarzar , where the local artisans sell their artworks.

In addition to making human and human like subjects, Olmec artisans were adept at animal portrayals, for example, the fish vessel to the right or the bird vessel in the gallery below.

The Romans celebrated her festival from March 19 to March 23 during the day which is called, in the neuter plural, Quinquatria, the fifth after the Ides of March, the nineteenth, an artisans' holiday .

The Spanish brought their own tradition of religious art which, in the hands of local native and mestizo builders and artisans, developed into a rich and distinctive style of architecture, painting, and sculpture known as Mestizo Baroque .

According to one legend, artisans could not put a corner tower back together after it was dismantled for renovations in the early Qing dynasty, and it was only rebuilt after the intervention of carpenter immortal Lu Ban.

In Rajasthan, India, an extraordinary school teaches rural women and men many of them illiterate to become solar engineers, artisans, dentists and doctors in their own villages. It's called the Barefoot College, and its founder, Bunker Roy, explains how it works.

Although government heavily restricted the merchants and viewed them as unproductive and usurious members of society, the samurai, who gradually became separated from their rural ties, depended greatly on the merchants and artisans for consumer goods, artistic interests, and loans.

His Mathematical Preface to Euclid was meant to promote the study and application of mathematics by those without a university education, and was very popular and influential among the mecanicians the new and growing class of technical craftsmen and artisans.

La Casa Tienda Tierra de la Luna (The Store House of the Land of the Moon) focuses on healing and peace and it prioritizes products made by local and international artisans that share their culture, tradition, love and respect for our Mother Earth.

By repeatedly repulsing Mongol raiders in the 13th century, the sultanate saved India from the devastation visited on West and Central Asia, setting the scene for centuries of migration of fleeing soldiers, learned men, mystics, traders, artists, and artisans from that region into the subcontinent, thereby creating a syncretic Indo Islamic culture in the north.

He travelled to Brazil in March 1816 as a member of the so called French Artistic Mission, a group of bonapartist French artists and artisans bound to creating in Rio de Janeiro an arts and crafts lyceum (Escola Real de Artes e Ofícios) under the auspices of King D. João VI and the Conde da Barca, which later became the Academia Imperial de Belas Artes (Imperial Academy of Fine Arts) under Emperor Dom Pedro I.