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Bar Refaeli (בר רפאלי)
Bar Refaeli (בר רפאלי), Israeli supermodel born 1985 in Hod HaSharon; 2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover model, first Israeli in SI, Forbes-listed top Israeli earner, TV host, wife of Adi Ezra.
Barbara Fialho
Barbara Fialho (born 1987), Brazilian model and singer from Montes Claros, Minas Gerais; Victoria's Secret Angel for seven years from the 2012 show, walked for Dior and Louis Vuitton, and records Brazilian and Latin-jazz music including "Samba e Amor" with Seu Jorge.
Barbara Palvin
Barbara Palvin (Palvin Barbara), Hungarian model born 1993 in Budapest, first Hungarian Victoria's Secret Angel (2019-2021), Prada debut 2010, L'Oréal ambassador, married Dylan Sprouse 2023, walked the 2026 VS show six weeks postpartum.
Barbara Sansoni
Barbara Sansoni (1928-2022), Sri Lankan artist, colourist, and founder of the Barefoot handloom company; also known for Vihares & Verandas and Architecture of an Island, her drawings of vernacular Sri Lankan buildings, and awards including the Kala Suri.
Barbi Benton
Barbi Benton (Barbara Klein, born 1950, Sacramento) is an American model, actress, and singer; Hugh Hefner's girlfriend 1969-1976, four-time Playboy cover figure, Hee Haw regular, and country singer of "Brass Buckles."
Barbie Ferreira
Barbie Ferreira (Barbara Ferreira), American actress and model from Queens, New York; Tumblr-to-American Apparel discovery at 16, viral unretouched 2016 Aerie campaign, Kat Hernandez on HBO's Euphoria (2019-2022), later indie films and a 2025 Victoria's Secret runway debut.
Barneys New York
Barneys New York was a Manhattan luxury department store founded in 1923 by Barney Pressman as a discount menswear shop, famous for launching designers like Armani, closing after a 2019 bankruptcy and sale to Authentic Brands Group, now licensed for revival.
Barong tagalog
Barong tagalog (Baro ng Tagalog, "dress of the Tagalog"), also called barong or camisa fuera, is the Philippines' embroidered sheer formal men's shirt worn untucked, made of piña or jusi, made national attire by 1975 presidential proclamation.
Barro negro pottery
Barro negro pottery is burnished black ceramic from San Bartolo Coyotepec, Oaxaca, Mexico, colored by low-oxygen reduction firing and shined by quartz burnishing without glaze, a Zapotec tradition over 2,500 years old.
Baseball cap
Baseball cap: soft-crowned hat with a stiff forward visor, originating with the 1860 Brooklyn Excelsiors. Fitted, snapback, and trucker variants; on-field MLB standard since New Era's 1993 supply deal; also a global fashion item and limited sun protection.
Basket
Basket: a container woven from plant materials such as wicker, cane, bamboo, straw, roots, or splints using coiling, twining, or plaiting; used for carrying, storage, and cultural expression worldwide.
Basket weaving
Basket weaving is the hand interlacing of plant materials such as reeds, grasses, bark, and roots into containers, mats, and other objects, using three basic techniques: coiling, twining, and plaiting.
Basketry in museum collections
Basketry in museum collections is the collecting, cataloging, display, and conservation of woven plant-fiber baskets, which serve as art, ethnographic record, and ancestral belongings for source communities.
Basketry Museum of the Roma
Basketry Museum of the Roma (Μουσείο Καλαθοπλεκτικής των Ρωμά), founded 1995 in Komotini and moved to Thrylorio in 2004, is an ethnological-technological museum of Roma basket-weaving with over 300 baskets from Thrace, the Balkans, and worldwide.
Bastar Dhokra
Bastar Dhokra (ढोकरा) is the traditional lost-wax casting craft of Bastar, Chhattisgarh, in which the Ghadwa community casts brass and bell metal objects by the cire perdue technique, registered as a Geographical Indication.
Bata Corporation
Bata Corporation (Baťa): family-owned footwear multinational founded 1894 in Zlín, Czechia, by the Baťa siblings; sells 150M+ pairs yearly in 70+ countries via 5,300 stores, largest footwear company in India.
Batik
Batik is a Javanese wax-resist dyeing art using canting and cap tools, inscribed by UNESCO in 2009; celebrated on Indonesia's October 2 National Batik Day and threatened by printed imitations and AI motifs.
Batik in Indonesia
Batik in Indonesia: wax-resist dyeing of cotton and silk using the canting or copper cap, inscribed by UNESCO in 2009, with batik tulis, batik cap, and combination forms certified by the Batikmark.
Batik kraton
Batik kraton is the court batik of Central Java, Indonesia, developed in the royal courts of Yogyakarta and Surakarta, with some motifs once reserved for royalty.
Batik tulis
Batik tulis, meaning "drawn," is the oldest form of Indonesian batik: wax is drawn by hand with a canting to resist dye, taking one to three months per cloth.
Bay Street Boards
Bay Street Boards: family-owned surf and skate shop at 3216 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica, founded by Galeazzo and Sante Bentivoglio (later joined by brother Francesco); known for board repairs, rentals, used boards, and community board swaps.
Bayeux Tapestry
The Bayeux Tapestry (Tapisserie de Bayeux) is an 11th-century embroidered hanging, about 68 m long, depicting the 1066 Norman conquest of England; kept in Bayeux, France, and loaned to the British Museum in 2026–2027.
Bead
Bead: a small perforated object of glass, shell, stone, clay, bone, or metal, strung or sewn as adornment, currency, or trade good; also called trade beads. Known from 142,000-year-old shell beads, Venetian Murano production, and North American fur-trade assemblages.
Bead embroidery
Bead embroidery (珠绣) is needlework attaching beads singly or in groups to a ground fabric. Includes tambour beading and Luneville work; documented in Tang China, Métis floral beadwork, and Peranakan Nyonya traditions.
Beanie (seamed cap)
Seamed beanie: a brimless skullcap whose crown is sewn from fabric or leather triangles, often topped with a button or pom-pom; etymology from slang "bean" (head), 1940; associated with school and fraternity caps and the whoopee cap.
Beanie Babies
Beanie Babies are a line of beanbag plush toys introduced by Ty Warner in 1993, filled with plastic pellets, that became one of the defining collectible crazes of the 1990s.
Bearbrick
Bearbrick (BE@RBRICK) is a bear-shaped collectible art toy launched in 2001 by Japan's Medicom Toy under Tatsuhiko Akashi, sold in 100%, 400%, and 1000% sizes and decorated through thousands of artist and brand collaborations.
Beatrice Wood
Beatrice Wood (1893-1998), American artist and studio potter called the Mama of Dada; New York Dada journal The Blind Man founder, later famed in Ojai, California for iridescent in-glaze luster earthenware.
Beau Brummell
George Bryan 'Beau' Brummell (1778-1840), London Regency arbiter of men's fashion and model of dandyism, whose austere tailoring, daily-bath grooming, and Royal Ascot dress code shaped modern menswear before debt drove him into French exile.
Beauvais Manufactory
Beauvais Manufactory, or Manufacture de Beauvais, is a French tapestry manufactory founded in 1664 at Beauvais on Colbert's initiative under Louis XIV, and it still weaves today.