A tool made from shaping human or animal bone and used by prehistoric people as tools as well as to create cave paintings such as hand stencils. Hollowed bones were also shaped into spear tips, hooks, clubs and pipes that were used to blow pigment onto the rock surface.
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A multi-thread machine used to create machine embroidery and lace, invented in 1893 by Swiss inventor Isaak Grobli. The term…
Also spelt gad, it is a type of block used in textile block-printing. The image in the block is carved…
Film cameras that produce images that are 9 cm x 12 cm or larger.
A photographic negative created on paper, rather than on modern cellulose film or a glass plate. William Henry Fox Talbot's…
A small circular hole used in optics and photography as an aperture for a light beam to pass through and…
Made of rods and boards fixed at right angles, it is a compact, box-shaped loom. It is portable and can…
Treadle-operated charkha or spinning wheel used in the Indian subcontinent to spin carded wool, cotton, silk, nettle or hemp into…
A camera with a single piece of glass or loaded with single pieces of film coated with light-sensitive chemicals. These…