Hemp, cotton, wood, paper, linen, vegetable oils, some types of rope, and rubber are examples of materials made from plants.

The most common examples are kerosene, diesel, petrol, charcoal, coal, wood, etc.

None of these examples is quite as remarkable as the wasp genus Megarhyssa, the females of which have a slender ovipositor ( terebra ) several inches long that is used to drill into the wood of tree trunks.

Preserved examples of various forms of spoons used by the ancient Egyptians include those composed of ivory, flint, slate and wood ; many of them carved with religious symbols.

Though a backscratcher could feasibly be fashioned from most materials, most modern backscratchers are made of plastic, though examples can be found made of wood, whalebone, tortoiseshell, horn, cane, bamboo or occasionally ivory.

In addition to the Taos museums, the Martinez Hacienda, a fortress occupied by Padre Martinez's family in the 19th century, provides examples of the integration of Spanish and Pueblo artistic movements in retablos ( santos painted on flat pieces of wood ), bultos ( santos carved out of wood and sometimes painted ), as well as tin work, jewelry, and basketry.

No examples, or traces, of the putative earlier forms in wood or with metal attachments have survived ; the decorative repertoire of early crosses certainly borrows from that of metalwork, but the same is true of Insular illuminated manuscripts.

They are plucked idiophones, such as the jaw harp, amplified cactus, kouxian, dan moi, music box or mbira ( lamellophone / thumb piano ); blown idiophones, of which there are a very small number of examples, the Aeolsklavier being one ; and friction idiophones, such as the singing bowl, glass harmonica, glass harp, turntable, verrophone, daxophone, styrophone, musical saw, or nail violin ( a number of pieces of metal or wood rubbed with a bow ).

These are often in wood, sometimes painted on the wood but often plastered over before painting ; the examples at the Alhambra in Granada, Spain are among the best known.

The first examples of cementation steel is wootz steel from India ( Craddock 1995: p276 ), where the crucibles were filled with the good quality wrought iron and carbon in the form of organics such as leaves, wood etc.

Many German and Polish 15th-century examples in wood greatly emphasise Christ's wounds.

Some of the finest extant examples of early European wood carving are from the Middle Ages in Germany, Italy and France, where the typical themes of that era were Christian iconography.

* craft, trades, professions-often depicting actions ( fishermen catching fish, woodcutters cutting wood ), or examples ( i. e., a stylized apple for an orchardist or apple merchant )

A pick is generally made of one uniform material ; examples include plastic, nylon, rubber, felt, tortoiseshell, wood, metal, glass, and stone.

Superficially the Green Man would appear to be pagan, perhaps a fertility figure or a nature spirit, similar to the woodwose ( the wild man of the woods ), and yet he frequently appears, carved in wood or stone, in churches, chapels, abbeys and cathedrals, where examples can be found dating through to the 20th century.

Ecclesall Wood has many examples of white coal kilns and the grave of a wood collier who was killed here when his cabin burned down on 11 October 1786.

Donatello's Gattamelata is the first lifesize equestrian statue in bronze since antiquity ; other medieval examples are in stone or wood.

** Curio Bay on the Catlins coast contains many petrified wood examples.

Here are some examples of energy content of several species of wood:

These inscriptions, especially those late period examples identifying a name, are typically executed in a script of highly pictographic flavor, which preserves the formal, complex Shang writing as would have primarily been written on bamboo or wood books, as opposed to the concurrent simplified, linearized and more rectilinear form of writing as seen on the oracle bones.

The wooden panels of Hesy-Ra are rare examples of high execution of hieroglyphs on wood.

Early examples include the use of wood heat in tents.

Many of Bazille's major works are examples of figure painting in which Bazille placed the subject figure within a landscape painted en plein air.

Colored glass is often used, though sometimes the glass is painted, innumerable examples exist of the use of stained glass.

One of the more famous examples is the painting Degas's Father Listening to Lorenzo Pagans Playing the Guitar by Edgar Degas, which was painted sometime between 1869 – 72 and is currently owned by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

The earliest ( surviving ) examples of Chinese painted artwork date to the Warring States Period ( 481-221 BC ), with paintings on silk or tomb murals on rock, brick, or stone.

In later tradition the number of icons of Mary attributed to Luke would greatly multiply ; the Salus Populi Romani, the Theotokos of Vladimir, the Theotokos Iverskaya of Mount Athos, the Theotokos of Tikhvin, the Theotokos of Smolensk and the Black Madonna of Częstochowa are examples, and another is in the cathedral on St Thomas Mount, which is believed to be one of the seven painted by St. Luke the Evangelist and brought to India by St. Thomas.

Salukis had entered China by the time of the Tang Dynasty ( 618 – 907 ), and examples of the breed were painted by the fifth Ming Emperor Zhū Zhānjī, known more commonly as the Xuande Emperor.

He " never painted a nude ", and his wife modelled for several of his harem scenes, which, with the rare examples by the classicist painter Lord Leighton, imagine " the harem as a place of almost English domesticity, ... ... women's fully clothed respectability suggests a moral healthiness to go with their natural good looks ".

For painted examples of either, simply browse through the Eldar army section of the Games-Workshop web site.

The statues included early examples of painted figures, and are thought to have been buried due to Emperor Huizong's Song Dynasty repression of Buddhism ( he favored Taoism ).

A pair of panel " icons " of Serapis and Isis of comparable date ( 3rd century ) and style are in the Getty Museum at Malibu ; as with the cult of Mithras, earlier examples of cult images were sculptures or pottery figurines, but from the 3rd century reliefs and then painted images are found.

A generation later, the Spanish painter Luis de Morales painted a number of highly emotional Pietàs, with examples in the Louvre and Museo del Prado.

Creators of these cards, such as the prolific Alfred Stanley Johnson, Jr., and William H. " Dad " Martin, usually employed trick photography, including forced perspective, while others painted their unlikely tableaus, or used a combination of painting and photography in early examples of photo retouching.

A little further north, just south of the Cromwell Road, the tranquil conservation area comprising Childs Place, Kenway Road, Wallgrave Road and Redfield Lane contains fine examples of more modest terraced townhouses painted in pastel shades in a very picturesque setting with some fine floral displays.

Very many examples in castles have been lost to fires, whether accidental or caused in war, but others were painted for monasteries, or given to them from castles, which if they survived World War II bombing have had a better chance of survival.

Early examples featured a model gollywog with a black painted face but after just a few months the colour was changed to grey.

* Belle Vue ( Amherstburg ), a two-storey, white painted, brick house ranking among the finest examples of Palladian architecture in Canada

These images would all be painted after carving, which helped to define the forms ; today the paint has worn off in the great majority of surviving examples, but minute, invisible remains of paint can usually be discovered through chemical means.

Some of this painted work was, apparently, executed by his own hand ; most of the pieces attributed to him are remarkable examples of artistic taste and technical skill.

The statues included early examples of painted figures, and are thought to have been buried due to Emperor Huizong's Song Dynasty repression of Buddhism ( he favoured Taoism ).

The polychrome painted interiors of the Vermont State House and Boston Public Library are examples of this type of heritage restoration.

By the mid-sixteenth century Giorgio Vasari could remark on the old-fashioned cassoni with painted scenes, examples of which could be seen in the palazzi of Florentine families.