At the same time, the couple participated in auctions and joined international miniature art associations.

In this miniature art museum, they gather together the works of their favorite artists.

In addition to miniature art, she also made jewelry and clothing; her sweaters were known to be especially elaborate.

The paintings represent yet another innovative element, both in themes and in painting techniques, related most closely to iconographic and miniature art.

He noted the different types of miniature art, rarely described as such, in jewelry, prayer book illuminations, scrimshaw, buttons, netsuke carvings, and portraits.

Their current playthings, he lamented, were 'useless', and should be replaced by miniature garden tools and chemistry sets.

Other popular projects include making a miniature garden in a terrarium — glass containers that are often sealed in order to create a microclimate.

No live animals or insect are kept in the jar, it's purely a miniature garden.

The island also features a long walkway through miniature gardens, a literature pavilion and atmospheric lighting at night.

The trees and the flowers, the fruit and the miniature gardens were long produced by distinctive craftsmen called the nakhlband.

They were a popular subject of miniature painting, and today their image proliferates across the media.

The 1960s brought a succession of important publications; reviews and substantial articles on ceramics, miniature painting, textiles and metalwork; and two books.

Her work borrows not just the methods but the motifs of traditional miniature painting, such as the lotus flower and peacock, and gives them a graphic 21st-century twist.

Contemporary artists usually do not consider miniature painting as merely a decorative art but as a fine art form.

Towards the end of the 19th century came a revival of miniature painting, but without producing any masters of the same calibre.

Prior to the development of photography, a painted miniature portrait was the most common means of recording a person's likeness.

Each mirror becomes like a miniature portrait reflecting the dramatic landscape outside.

They also display their family orders - miniature portraits of the sovereign set in diamonds suspended from a ribbon - pinned to their left shoulder.

From these enigmatic introductions, he expands in precise brushstrokes to paint miniature portraits of places and their inhabitants.

She taught herself how to make miniature watercolor copies on ivory, and between 1803-1810 she made miniature portraits either from copies or from life.

Winners were allowed to retain it for a year and were given a miniature replica to keep permanently.

If you're seriously rich, and having an architect design you a large new house, he might commission a miniature replica, too.

The albums are placed in chronological order all with miniature replica sleeves of the original vinyl releases.

A miniature replica of a proposed design, about one foot (0.3 m) in diameter, can be tested and the laboratory measurements applied to the final application with high confidence.

They are authentic miniature replicas of the latest adult clothes.

If you really want to avoid pruning, ground-cover, patio and miniature roses can be left to do their own thing without much intervention.

Miniature roses are represented by twiggy, repeat-flowering shrubs ranging from 6 to 36 in height, with most falling in the 12 24 height range.

Rose plants range in size from compact, miniature roses, to climbers that can reach seven meters in height.

These combine characteristics of larger miniature roses and smaller floribundasresulting in the rather loose classification patio roses.

As a class, they are notable for their inclination to produce mutations of various sizes and forms, including moss roses and some of the first miniature roses (see below).

It has a pool, stables next door and, bizarrely, a miniature train to shuttle you around.

While his defences solidify, his thoughts hum with adages not yet primed; occasionally a particularly suggestive phrase seems to 'chase itself like a miniature train around a tight circuit'.

It's not right on the beach - the coastline has been protected from developers - but guests can get there in five minutes on a miniature train.

It's beautifully presented and maintained, complete with a fun miniature train ride around the large central lake.

Activities include shopping and midway games, as well as a miniature train that traverses the entire area.

Some of the cairns are 100ft across, and you can creep right inside, like a miniature version of the pyramids.

This miniature version, however, was a joy.

It was a miniature version of a major obsession - that a work's true value would only emerge over time, revealed to the happy few.

Go for classic tote shapes or bag a miniature version to store your essentials.

It looks like a miniature version of the cerebral cortex, in that it has a wavy, or convoluted surface.