CRAFTSMEN FIND STUFF OF CREATION ALL AROUND.Byline: Alex Dobuzinskis Staff Writer As Oralia Van Leuven and a friend strolled through the Montrose Arts and Crafts arts and crafts, term for that general field of applied design in which hand fabrication is dominant. The term was coined in England in the late 19th cent. as a label for the then-current movement directed toward the revivifying of the decorative arts. Festival, they paused to admire plant holders shaped like women holding flower pots. ``I admire people's creativity,'' Van Leuven said as she stood in front of the plant holders made of discarded metal plates, springs, horseshoes and auto parts Auto parts are components of automobiles. They mainly are, in alphabetic order (only car specific articles or articles with car section):
Paul and Sharon Johnson, a couple from Oregon, were selling those holders at The Carpenter's Son booth. One of the womanly wom·an·ly adj. wom·an·li·er, wom·an·li·est 1. Having qualities generally attributed to a woman. 2. Belonging to or representative of a woman; feminine: womanly attire. plant holders had strands of hair made from a bicycle chain; another had locks made of metal springs. ``People would throw all that stuff out,'' said Van Leuven, 61, a social worker from Glendale. ``Sprockets of who knows what. It's great.'' The festival, now in its 22nd year, featured a wide variety of creations from about 350 vendors. There were ceramic pots that keep chip dip cool, birdhouses with pitched roofs made of various state license plates; and more-standard items, such as jewelry, bonsai bonsai (bōn`sī), art of cultivating dwarf trees. Bonsai, developed by the Japanese more than a thousand years ago, is derived from the Chinese practice of growing miniature plants. trees, clothing and wind chimes wind chimes pl.n. An arrangement of small suspended pieces, as of glass, metal, or ceramic, hung loosely together so that they tinkle pleasingly when blown by the wind. Also called wind-bells. . The festival was held Saturday and Sunday. About 60,000 people attended the festival over two days last year, and about the same number came this year, said Deen Ovenden, event coordinator. At his booth, Stan Cline, 66, of Winnetka sold nostalgic paintings and prints of Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. and other western cities. Cline has done such paintings for 27 years and uses old photographs for his models. One depicts the Coca-Cola Co. bottling plant Noun 1. bottling plant - a plant where beverages are put into bottles with caps industrial plant, plant, works - buildings for carrying on industrial labor; "they built a large plant to manufacture automobiles" on South Central Avenue in 1949. Another shows the Sands Hotel The Sands Hotel was a legendary Las Vegas, Nevada hotel/casino that operated from December 15, 1952 to June 30, 1996. It was the seventh resort that opened on the Las Vegas Strip. It was designed by architect Wayne McAllister. in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. as it looked in 1966. ``A lot of research goes into every painting,'' said Cline, who sometimes gets pictures of vanished landmarks from his customers. ``There's a lot of things that I could do - like certain restaurants around the L.A. area (that don't exist anymore) - that I get a lot of requests on, and I can't find anything on (them),'' Cline said. Toom Herring of Long Beach, when she was not painting butterflies on handheld fans, answered questions from customers who looked at her umbrellas and fans painted with a white tiger, cranes, red-maned dragons and other creatures, real or imaginary. She and her husband, Jim Herring, go to her native Thailand every year to get the fans and umbrellas she later paints. Stephanee Simms, 38, of Canoga Park has made a lifetime occupation of arts and crafts. ``Meet a lot of people, go to a lot of different areas,'' she said. She currently makes reversible dolls and children's activity books. But she started working in crafts as a fifth-grader painting statues made by others and selling them at swap meets. Alex Dobuzinskis, (818) 546-3304 alex.dobuzinskis(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: At the annual Montrose Arts and Crafts Festival, people see themselves Sunday in mirrors by Ross Waldberg. Sponsors say about 60,000 people attended the festival over two days. Hans Gutknecht/Staff Photographer |
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