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  2. Upholstery - Wikipedia

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    Upholstery is the work of providing furniture, especially seats, with padding, springs, webbing, and fabric or leather covers. The word also refers to the materials used to upholster something. Upholstery comes from the Middle English word upholder, [1] which referred to an artisan who makes fabric furnishings. [2]

  3. Carpentry - Wikipedia

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    Carpentry includes such specialties as barrelmaker, cabinetmaker, framer, luthier, and ship's carpenter. Carpenter handling a plank used in scaffolding. Exhibit of traditional European carpenter's tools in Italy. Carpenters in an Indian village working with hand tools. Carpentry is a skilled trade and a craft in which the primary work performed ...

  4. Interior design - Wikipedia

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    Interior design is the art and science of enhancing the interior of a building to achieve a healthier and more aesthetically pleasing environment for the people using the space. With a keen eye for detail and a creative flair, an interior designer is someone who plans, researches, coordinates, and manages such enhancement projects.

  5. Furniture repair - Wikipedia

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    Furniture repair is the craft of making broken or worn furniture usable again. It may include the preservation of old furniture, which is referred to as restoration.The craft of furniture repair requires a number of different skills including woodworking, metalworking, wood finishing, caning (furniture), woodturning, and upholstery.

  6. German training ship Gorch Fock (1958) - Wikipedia

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    The new ship was built by Blohm & Voss in Hamburg, launched on 23 August 1958, and commissioned on 17 December of that year. Her home port is Kiel. The Gorch Fock is a three-masted barque with a steel hull 81.2 m (266 ft) long (without the bowsprit) and 12 m (40 ft) wide. She has a draught of some 5.2 m (17 ft) and a displacement at full load ...

  7. Interior design education - Wikipedia

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    Interior design education. Interior design education is the teaching of skills and information needed to perform interior design work. Education in this field is offered in different parts of the world; however, the application requirements for acceptance vary among countries and schools. There are a number of different routes to attain ...

  8. United States Department of the Interior - Wikipedia

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    www .doi .gov. The United States Department of the Interior ( DOI) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the management and conservation of most federal lands and natural resources. It also administers programs relating to Native Americans, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, territorial affairs, and insular ...

  9. Building services engineering - Wikipedia

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    The two most notable professional bodies are: The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) was founded in 1894.; The British Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) was founded in 1976 and received a Royal Charter in the United Kingdom, formally recognising building services engineering as a profession.