Light-sealed room used for chemically processing photographic film and making prints. While developing film requires complete darkness, prints are made using light with a coloured filter (known as safelight), typically red, which can illuminate the room without affecting the photosensitive paper that is used for making prints.
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A type of block used in textile block-printing. It is carved in complete or high relief so that the printed…
A tool used to separate warp yarn threads and keep them in their place in a hand loom. It is…
Also known as a jala, it is an arrangement of threads that maps the desired design and is attached to…
Mechanical tool installed on a loom for textile weaving, which enables the weft thread to be drawn through the warp…
A nineteenth-century method of producing photographic negatives using a glass plate coated with a silver emulsion. While relatively inexpensive and…
A technology for drilling developed during the Mature Phase (c. 2600–1900 BCE) of the Indus Valley Civilisation. It was made…
Handloom commonly used for traditional tapestry and carpet weaving, in which the warp threads are stretched parallel or nearly parallel…
A version of the traditional charkha which uses multiple spindles as opposed to a single spindle and is intended for…