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1. Clippings
From time to time, most people cut out newspaper and magazine articles that have some special interest for them. Having cut out his article, the casual person puts it away and completely forgets about it until it turns up unexpectedly months, or even years, later. The serious collector of clippings does things with a great deal more method. He keeps his clippings in a large scrapbook, one usually big enough to accommodate a full newspaper page without folding. He mounts them by using a small amount of rubber cement instead of paste, so that later he can peel off a clipping without damaging it. In an orderly way, he types the name and date of the publication and mounts it in his book above the clipping. Some collectors do not limit themselves to any one subject, but clip stories that are interesting to them for any reason. These collectors have different sections of their scrapbooks for various subjects: humor, fashions, theater, motion pictures, sports, crime, tropical fish, wild animals, or any other subjects they wish. Other clippers confine themselves to one subject. Often it is connected with another hobby. An arm-chair traveler, for instance, might supplement his collection of travel books with articles and pictures from newspapers and magazines. He may use several albums, each labeled for a different country: AFRICA, CANADA, ITALY, MEXICO, SPAIN, and so on. A simple index system makes it easy to find any desired reference. Other hobbies that appear at first glance to require no clipping service can be made much more enjoyable if they are combined with a clipping collection. For example, a coin collector gathers knowledge as well as coins. One album should suffice, for a start, to hold stories and newspaper columns related to coins. For easy reference at a later date, the collector can use different pages of his scrapbook for articles about the coins of different countries. A special section should be allocated for articles dealing with the coins of more than one country. Before he knows it, the collector will find that he is a three-hobby man, equally interested in coins, clippings, and foreign lands.
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2. Silver
Gold and silver were also produced many centuries ago in Spain, France, Italy, Portugal, and Holland. Many of these early examples of the silversmith's art still remain in the churches for which they were first made.
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3. Mosaics
Mosaics then lapsed for several centuries but were revived in Italy during the Middle Ages with considerable success; many eminent painters designed subjects for mosaics.
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4. Sgraffito
The technique eventually made its way to Italy, where it flourished in Bologna to the end of the 18th century.
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5. Decorating With Lustres
Lustres were introduced into Italy from Spain and enjoyed popularity in Tuscany and the Umbrian towns of Gubbio and Deruta.
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