A sun-dried, unfired brick of clay and straw. Contemporary makers of adobes sometimes introduce additional binders or aggregates. This construction material is traditional to many cultures to which these ingredients were readily available. In the United States this is especially true in the Southwest. Also, a structure built with this kind of brick.
Amarna art is more natural, less stylized than earlier Egyptian art.
It used weak collodion negatives which were then bleached and backed by a black background which produced the effect of a positive image. An image that appears distorted unless it is viewed from a special angle, or with a mirror, or with some other device. In photography, an anamorphic lens is capable of compressing a wide angle of view onto a standard frame of film. A similar projection system can be used to reform such an image onto a wide screen. Appliqu is used for wall hangings and as decoration on clothing, quilts and pillows.