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Dec 25 2009

Toy Plush

Toy Plush
How to wash a plush toy?

So i have some plush toys im in love with and want to last forever and ever XD I noticed the white ones are looking kind of dingy lately, being 4 years old and going back and forth between collage and hole with me. I was going to wash them, but they say spot clean only…but they a bit dingy all over, any idea what i can do? They are pretty puffy, i dono if they would even dry all the way if i could wash them anyway..

*** Step 1

Tips for Refreshing Collectible Displayed Plushes

Plush collectible toys that are an investment, for example, TY Beanie Babies, Gund, Boyd’s Bears, Steiff or Russ with tags, that you can’t wash in the washing machine, try one of the methods that are listed here:

Tip #1. Dust them off periodically with a clean, soft cloth. If necessary, you may use a cloth and a mild detergent to spot clean them.

Tip #2. Place it in the dryer on the lowest heat setting for around 5 minutes.

Tip #3. For getting rid of odors, place in the dryer on the lowest heat setting for 5 minutes with a Snuggle DRYER SHEET.

Tip #4. Vacuum with the drapery nozzle.

Tip #5. A Lent Roller will work.

*** Step 2

Sanitizing a Plush while on Vacation

You can easily and safely sanitize a plush toy while on vacation or if it is dropped on the floor in a public place by using an antibacterial Wet Wipe until you are able to clean it properly at home.

If the child can do without the toy for a day or 2 and if you have access to a freezer, then you may try placing the plush or soft toy or doll in a plastic bag and place it in the freezer for 42 hours. This will destroy bugs you may or may not see. After you take it out of the plastic bag, place it in the dryer on low heat or fluff.

*** Step 3

Removing Ink or Crayon Marks on Doll Face

In my many experiments cleaning plushes with plastic or rubber faces, hands and feet, I finally found some very good methods for removing ink, crayon and pencil marks and yes, even Magic Marker!

My favorite is the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser. Awesome!

Most of the time crayon or pencil can be easily be cleaned with a mild soap and warm water or Clorox Wipes. Don’t use fancy scented or dyed soaps with color because it can be transferred to the rubber or plastic.

If it’s crayon or ink that’s really etched in the plastic or rubber, then use alcohol, just don’t get the alcohol on the doll’s eyes as they will fade.

If the toy gets really dirty then clean it with a little Softscrub on a cotton ball, and remember to take care and not get it on the eyes.

To remove the dreaded Magic Marker of any color, apply a little Clearasil on the marks and let it dry, then wipe it off gently. Yeah, pretty clever huh!

Always use a mild soap and plenty of water AFTER using chemicals to clean then blot dry with a soft cloth.

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Red Yoyo

Red Yoyo

South Italian Ancient Greek pottery

South Italian is a designation for ancient Greek pottery fabricated in Magna Graecia largely during the Fourth Century B.C. The fact that Greek Southern Italy produced its own red figure pottery as early as the end of the fifth century B.C. was first established by Adolf Furtwaengler in 1893 (A.D. Trendall). Prior to that this pottery had been first designated as “Etruscan” and then as “Attic.” Archaeological proof that this pottery was actually being produced in South Italy first came in 1973 when a workshop and kilns with misfirings and broken wares was first excavated at Metaponto, proving that the Amykos Painter was located there rather than in Athens (A.D. Trendall, p. 17).

Overview

The interchange of iconography, techniques, and ideas between the major pottery centers of the Hellenistic Period was formidable. One can see the influences of Corinth, Athens, Etruria, and cross pollination throughout the fabrics of Magna Graecia. There are five regions which produced South Italian ware: Apulia, Lucania, Paestum, Campania, and Sicily. These regions, in turn, had various workshops within them.

Apulian ware was almost all made in various workshops in Taras (Taranto).

Lucanian ware was made in Heraklea and Metaponto.

Paestan ware was all made in Poseidonia (Paestum).

Campanian ware was made in Capua and Kyme (Cumae).

Sicilian ware was made in Syracuse and Lipari.

Later centers also developed in Teano (Campania), Canosa (Apulia), and Gnathia (Apulia), but these potteries are moving away from Classical red figure towards the less figurative work of the later Hellenistic and Graeco-Roman Periods.

All South Italian fabrics were originally scions from the Attic workshops of Athens, when artists began to leave that city following the Peloponnesian Wars. The earliest workshops seem to have been founded in Lucania, and Apulia. Others were founded in Sicily, and then scions from the Sicilian workshops established those in Paestum and Campania.

South Italian ware illustrates many ancient Greek dramas and myths which are unknown in Mainland Greek pottery fabrics like those of Athens (Attic ware), Sparta (Laconian ware), and Corinth (Corinthian ware).

Almost all of the pottery forms developed in Greece were also produced in South Italy. However, South Italian potters developed some of these traditional forms in new directions. For instance, Apulian potters take the volute krater and loutrophoros to new heights of fancy, making them far more elabrate than their Athenian forerunners. Apulian potters, having a taste for the frilly and elaborate, take traditional forms such as the Panathenaic amphora, the oinochoe, the lekythos, attenuate their forms, exaggerate their flares, add volute handles, molded gorgonions, affectionately dubbed “macaroons”, and end up with extremely elegant new varieties of pottery which still fit within the Hellenistic aesthetic, and end up becoming standard in the subsequent Graeco-Roman world.

New Italiote forms come about through experimentation and borrowing from local Italic cultures. In Campania, the bail amphora was invented. This is an amphora shape which has a single handle across the mouth rather than the usual double handles on the neck or shoulder. Local Italic forms made by native peoples were also borrowed into the South Italian repertoire. The Messapian trozzella is borrowed and becomes the nestoris, an eleborate form having a large belly, a pair of lug handles, a pair of neck to shoulder handles, and molded rosettes.

Some elements of decoration were also innovative. Apulian artists use polychromatic, coiling tendrils and flower forms including roses, poppies, and whirling swirls to fill necks and other traditionally black areas of vases. Frequent use is made of portrait or cameo faces of nymphs and satyrs. Rosettes, vine leaves, and other fillers get more and more elaborate. Italiote artists also created a technique called “sovradipinto,” in which multiple layers of colored slips were used to add chiaroscuro (highlight and lowlight) for figures and decorations. The Campanian artists seem to have favored the use of a broader palette of colors than the other fabrics, often making female figures with white skin, while leaving male figures in red, and then adding lots of purple red, yellow, and white details all over the vases. Italiote artists were also extremely adept at using the false red figure technique, also known as Six’s technique. This is the application of red and white slips on top of the black gloss rather than leaving figures and designs in reserve, as was the usual Athenian custom. This technique was also very popular in Etruria and may hail from that region.

Bibliography

South Italian Vase Painting by A.D. Trendall

Red Figure Vases of South Italy and Sicily by A.D. Trendall

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Pottery of ancient Greece

Wine shapes

Krater  Kylix  Oenochoe  Skyphos  Psykter  Kyathos  Rhyton  Kantharos  Askos  Kotyle  Dinos

Perfume shapes and wedding shapes

Lebes Gamikos  Loutrophoros  Epinetron  Alabastron   Aryballos   Lekythos

Funerary shapes and cultic shapes

Lekythos  Loutrophoros  Phiale

Storage shapes

Amphora  Lebes  Pithos  Stamnos  Hydria

Techniques

Red-figure  Black-figure  Bilingual pottery  Six’s technique  White-ground

Painters

List of Greek vase painters  Amasis Painter  Exekias  Pioneer Group  Douris  Meidias Painter  Euphronios

Special topics in Greek pottery

Typology  Kalos inscription  Symposium  Corpus vasorum antiquorum  John Beazley  Panathenaic Amphorae  South Italian

Categories: Ancient Greek vase-painting styles | Art of Magna Graecia
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