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Spanish term or phrase:	encaje de bolillos
English translation:	painstaking task
Entered by:	liz askew

14:31 Jun 14, 2008

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Social Sciences - Government / Politics

Spanish term or phrase: encaje de bolillos

En Corea, avanzaba la voluntad de la sociedad para superar los elementos que escamoteaban su desarrollo libre y transparente, junto con el mantenimiento de la difícil política de reconciliación con Pyongyang, que se presentaba como un complejo encaje de bolillos.

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painstaking task

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panace@ 19.indd
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de manifiesto los bibliotecarios, que tuvieron que hacer encaje de. bolillos para catalogar esas obras repetidas. Para entonces ya ...
www.tremedica.org/panacea/PanaceaPDFs/panacea19_Marzo2005.p... - Similar pages

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maybe "painstaking efforts"

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Post-CFC Korean Security: Key Issues and Suggestions
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So much. for the ROK’s painstaking efforts to support and embrace the North. through the “Sunshine Policy.” Pyongyang in return paid Seoul back ...
www.kida.re.kr/data/2007/10/15/01.pdf - Similar pages

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http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=reconciliation Pyongyang pa...

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Sorry

painstaking task

considering your context :-)

Good luck!

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even

painstakingly complex task

ASU Research: March 2007 Archives
Predicting how the smallest details of a golf ball's design will make it act in flight is a painstakingly complex task. --by Joe Kullman ...
researchmag.asu.edu/2007/03/ - 51k - Cached - Similar pages

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liz askew
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Local time: 13:16

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painstaking task

liz askew

bobbin lace (explicado abajo)

Sandra Rodriguez

mare's nest

Noni Gilbert Riley

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painstaking task

liz askew
United Kingdom
Local time: 13:16
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bobbin lace (explicado abajo)

Explanation:
...a panorama (a situation, scenario) as complex as an elaborated mantle of bobbin lace.

Bobbin lace
...a lace textile made by weaving lengths of thread, which are wound on bobbins to manage them. As the work progresses, the weaving is held in place with pins set in a lace pillow, the placement of the pins usually determined by a pattern or pricking pinned on the pillow.

Bobbin lace has also been known as pillow lace and as bone lace, possibly because the bobbins were made of bone, or because sometimes fish bones were used as pins.

Bobbin lace may be made with coarse or fine threads. Traditionally it was made with linen, silk, wool, or, later, cotton threads, or with precious metals. Today it is made with a variety of natural and synthetic fibers and with wire and other filaments.

Elements of the lace design may include toile (clothwork), net (or grounds), braids, picots, tallies, and fillings, although not all styles of bobbin lace include all these elements.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobbin_lace

Encajar en el mundo (review)
Journal of American Folklore - Volume 116, Number 460, Spring 2003, pp. 230-232

Weaving One's Way into the World
Video format (Luna Films, San Juan, Puerto Rico.) The documentary follows the process of creating the theater curtain for Puerto Rico's Museo de Arte, using the technique of mundillo, Puerto Rican bobbin lace (encaje de bolillos). The curtain was a collaboration between Antonio Martorell, one of Puerto Rico's most noted visual and graphic artists and a collective of tejedoras (lacemakers), the Borinquen Lacers. Mundillo employs wooden bobbins wound with thread that are manipulated to follow a stenciled pattern design attached to a loom made of a cylindrical pillow set in wooden bolsters. Each single stitch is made by using at least two pairs of bobbins and is held in place by pins.

http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/journal_of_american_...

Sandra Rodriguez
Puerto Rico
Local time: 08:16
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Spanish
PRO pts in category: 28

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mare's nest

Explanation:
Not just complex but also delicate....

"Last time we saw this part of the garage wall it was a complete 'mare's nest' of wires"
www.totalfrance.com/france/gallery/brittany

"The question may turn out to be a complete mare's nest, but it is only if we are allowed to ask it that we can stop being suspicious." www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/ld199697/ldha...

"Contentar a todo el partido es hacer un encaje de bolillos" www.elimparcial.es/contenido/11168.html

Noni Gilbert Riley
Spain
Local time: 14:16
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English
PRO pts in category: 40

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