Art deco

Many thanks to my friend Inna :)

Distaff

Shapely the paper bookmark with nationally symbolic carvings, and a white card, which will be able to write a greeting or greeting a fellow, and maybe the most meaningful to write down a quote or slogan.

 

Distaff  is a tool used in spinning. It is designed to hold the unspun fibers, keeping them untangled and thus easing the spinning process. It is most commonly used to hold flax, and sometimes wool, but can be used for any type of fiber. Fiber is wrapped around the distaff, and tied in place with a piece of ribbon or string. The word comes from dis in Low German, meaning a bunch of flax, connected with staff.
A spindle is a straight spike usually made from wood used for spinning, twisting fibers such as wool, flax, hemp, cotton into yarn. It is often weighted at either the bottom, middle, or top, commonly by a disc or spherical object called a whorl, but many spindles exist that are not weighted by a whorl, but by thickening their shape towards the bottom, such as Orenburg and French spindles. The spindle may also have a hook, groove, or notch at the top to guide the yarn. Spindles come in many different sizes and weights depending on the thickness of the yarn one desires to spin.

Spindles, or rather distaff, have become one of the Lithuanian folk characters. Various their writings, carvings surprising creativity and ingenuity. When the sun almost all cultures assumes particular importance. Lithuanians also prayed it, revered. Various wayside shrines and monuments are often decorated with old-fashioned sun motif. Lithuanian folklore sun often personified.

The first bookmark in my collection from Georgia :)

My friend bought it from a street artist.
  Many thanks to my friend Kristina :)

Postcards with bookmarks for students :)

Postcard with a bookmark works well as a greeting card for the first day at school. Kids will appreciate a bookmark with multiplication table during their math classes!

Many thanks to my friend Laura :)

Minsk

Minsk is the capital and largest city of Belarus, situated on the Svislach and Nyamiha rivers. It is the administrative centre of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). As the national capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the administrative centre of Minsk Region (voblast) and Minsk raion (district). In 2013, it had a population of 2,002,600.
The earliest historical references to Minsk date to the 11th century (1067), when it was noted as a provincial city within the principality of Polotsk. The settlement developed on the rivers. In 1242, Minsk became a part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. It received town privileges in 1499.
From 1569, it was a capital of the Minsk Voivodship in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. It was part of a region annexed by the Russian Empire in 1793, as a consequence of the Second Partition of Poland. From 1919–1991, after the Russian Revolution, Minsk was the capital of the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic within the Soviet Union. More...

This bookmark is me tremendously expensive, because it is the from birthplace of my dad-of Minsk. :)

Thank you very much, my bookish friend Laura :)

Nesebar the Old Town (Bulgaria)- Art Yanko Yanev

Bulgaria officially the Republic of Bulgaria is a country located in Southeastern Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, and the Black Sea to the east. With a territory of 110,994 square kilometres (42,855 sq mi), Bulgaria is Europe's 14th-largest country. More...

Nesebar  is an ancient town and one of the major seaside resorts on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, located in Burgas Province. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Nesebar Municipality. Often referred to as the "Pearl of the Black Sea" and "Bulgaria's Dubrovnik", Nesebar is a rich city-museum defined by more than three millennia of ever-changing history. More...

 http://yankoyanev.com/

Thank you very much my best friend Rita :)

Picasso The Bouquet of Friendship

Pablo Ruiz y Picasso, known as Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer who spent most of his adult life in France. As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is widely known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture,the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907), and Guernica (1937), a portrayal of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. More...

Woman at the Window at Figueres, 1926 Salvador Dalí (Spanish, 1904-1989)

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marqués de Dalí de Pubol (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), known as Salvador Dalí , was a prominent Spanish surrealist painter born in Figueres, in the Catalonia region of Spain.
Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in 1931. Dalí's expansive artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media.
Dalí attributed his "love of everything that is gilded and excessive, my passion for luxury and my love of oriental clothes"to an "Arab lineage", claiming that his ancestors were descended from the Moors.
Dalí was highly imaginative, and also enjoyed indulging in unusual and grandiose behavior. His eccentric manner and attention-grabbing public actions sometimes drew more attention than his artwork, to the dismay of those who held his work in high esteem, and to the irritation of his critics.

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http://awdsgn.com/classes/fall09/webI/student/trad_mw/minch/final/pages/dali.html

Cute carrot :)

Thank you,Ana :)

Green marker :)

Looks like a normal leaf, but it is in fact a sticky note. So the more sticky notes you use, the greener it gets like a fresh tuft of grass.:)

Bookmark from Lithuanian Read books bookstore "Knygos namai" (House of Books)

From India

Thank you, Charu :)

Pippi Longstocking

Pippi Longstocking (Swedish Pippi Långstrump) is a fictional character in a series of children's books by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren, and adapted into multiple films and television series. Pippi was named by Lindgren's then nine-year-old daughter, Karin, who requested a get-well story from her mother one day when she was home sick from school. More...

Bookmark from Bokklubbens Barnebibliotek (Norway).  
Bokklubbens Barnebibliotek ( english- Bokklubbens Children's Library) is a series of 25 volumes, published by the Norwegian book club in 2006.

The Little Prince

The Little Prince (French: ''Le Petit Prince''), first published in 1943, is a novella and the most famous work of the French aristocrat writer, poet and pioneering aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944, Mort pour la France). More... 

Bookmark from Bokklubbens Barnebibliotek (Norway).  
Bokklubbens Barnebibliotek ( english- Bokklubbens Children's Library) is a series of 25 volumes, published by the Norwegian book club in 2006.

The series was edited by a committee consisting of the author Jostein Gaarder, the National Librarian Vigdis Moe Skarstein, Professor Harald Bache-Wiig, Anne Kristin Lande from the Norwegian children's book department, Vibeke Rögle from the Association! Read, Kris Spark Einarsson from book clubs and Mary Kolle Riis from book clubs. The series featured children's books of Western Europe and the U.S., published between 1865 and 1997, with a slight increase of Norwegian and British books.

Book "Crush at Thomas Hall". Beth Sorensen

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From India

From India :)

Cute, pretty sight :)

Thank you, Charu :)

Kingfisher Airlines

Kingfisher Airlines Limited is an airline group based in India.

From Museum EGIPCI in Barcelona

http://www.museuegipci.com/

Frohe weihnachten(German)-Merry Christmas

The bookmark shows the The Gothic Cologne cathedral.

Cologne Cathedral (German: Kölner Dom, officially Hohe Domkirche St. Peter und Maria, English: High Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Mary) is a Roman Catholic church in Cologne, Germany. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Cologne and the administration of the Archdiocese of Cologne. It is renowned monument of German Catholicism and Gothic architecture and is a World Heritage Site. It is Germany's most visited landmark, attracting an average of 20,000 people a day.
Cologne Cathedral was built between 1248 and 1880. It is 144.5 metres (474 ft) long, 86.5 m (284 ft) wide and its towers are approximately 157 m (515 ft) tall. The cathedral is the largest Gothic church in Northern Europe and has the second-tallest spire and largest façade of any church in the world. The choir has the largest height to width ratio of any medieval church.
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Thanks,Vaiva :)