Sohag
Sohag or Sawhaj , town (1986 pop. 132,649), capital of Sohag governorate, central Egypt, on the Nile River. It is located in a densely populated agricultural region. Local industries include ginned cotton and silk weaving. Two Coptic monasteries are there. Nearby is Bayt Khallaf, the site of a mastaba built under King Zoser (III dynasty).
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Siam work to start.
Newspaper article from: Suffolk Free Press (Sudbury, England); 6/3/2008; 161 words
; ...peaceful area that celebrates Sudbury's silk weaving heritage. The project, drawn up by Sudbury...feature a board outlining the town's silk weaving links and include new gates, paving...who know all about Sudbury's link to silk weaving but others who don't, particularly tourists...
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English textiles.(Gainshorough Silk Weaving Co.)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 3/1/2001; ; 405 words
; ...was later apprenticed with the English Silk Weaving Company. He established his Gainshorough Silk Weaving Company with two secondhand looms, and...particularly those in France, where silk weaving was in decline. These samples provide...
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Sudbury - Verdict due on gardens.
Newspaper article from: Suffolk Free Press (Sudbury, England); 1/17/2008; 299 words
; ...area into gardens celebrating Sudbury's silk weaving heritage. Siam Gardens was closed nearly...information boards outlining the history of silk weaving. But plans for lights and benches have...it will be good to explain Sudbury's silk weaving history. The scheme will cost between...
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Date set for revamp of former Sudbury no-go zone.
Newspaper article from: Suffolk Free Press (Sudbury, England); 2/7/2008; 254 words
; ...Gardens, in Sudbury, into an area that celebrates the town's silk weaving heritage. Under plans put forward by Sudbury market town...will also include information boards outlining the town's silk weaving history. The gardens are yards from a former silk factory...
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SUDAN: COMPLETION OF PREPARATIONS FOR OPENING A SILK WEAVING FACTORY.(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 9/29/2003; 54 words
; ...published in late August 2003 by the Blue Nile District Administration announcing completion on work for the project to build a silk weaving factory. The paper quoted Governor of the Blue Nile District, Eng. Abdullah Othman al-Haj, who said that the natural silk...
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Honour for silky operator.
Newspaper article from: Suffolk Free Press (Sudbury, England); 3/6/2006; 196 words
; Three decades of dedication to silk weaving has brought a top award for a company chairman. David Tooth, who joined Vanners Silks in Sudbury as a trainee in 1972, has received...
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Immigrants and the industries of London, 1500-1700.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2006; 101 words
; ...clear picture of the cosmopolitan but often xenophobic world of London in the 16th-18th centuries. Focusing primarily on silk weaving, beer brewing and the silver trade, she describes the way the hostility faced by immigrant artisans slowed the pace of progress...
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Olive bids farwell to Vanners Silks after 46 years.
Newspaper article from: Suffolk Free Press (Sudbury, England); 3/20/2008; 177 words
; A Sudbury silk weaving firm's longest-serving employee has retired. Olive Siggers bade farewell to colleagues at Vanners, following her 63rd birthday...
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EGYPT: POLISH TEAM DISCOVERS 6TH DYNASTY TOMB AT SAKKARA.
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 4/9/2006; 95 words
; A Polish team excavating in an area west of King Zoser's Pyramid at Sakkara, South of Giza, has discovered a new tomb, Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni declared yesterday. The Minister...
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Jacquard's web; how a hand-loom led to the birth of the information age. (reprint, 2004).(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: SciTech Book News; 9/1/2007; 111 words
; ...directed patterns produced on silk looms, finding that Jacquard adapted (but did not invent) the system primarily to corner the silk weaving market. Jacquard soon saw the concept sliding from salon to workshop floor to other factories. Essinger tracks it all the...
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Sawhaj
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Egypt: see Sohag .
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Coptic architecture
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...with an apse , apsidal transepts , a gallery, and an atrium . The three apses recur at the White and Red Monasteries, near Sohag (C5 and C6 respectively). The basilican plan with variations was used, and capitals based on Corinthian and Byzantine basket...
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Coptic art
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...sculpture, textiles, ivory, and illumination. Coptic architecture, as shown in the 5th-century White and Red monasteries near Sohag, showed traces of local Egyptian traditions. Bibliography: See K. Wessel, Coptic Art: The Early Christian Art of Egypt (1965...
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