A small circular hole used in optics and photography as an aperture for a light beam to pass through and reflect images on its image plane. It is used in pinhole cameras and camera obscura.
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A vertical loom predominantly used to weave carpets in India, Iran and Turkey. The loom consists of two moveable beams…
Treadle-operated charkha or spinning wheel used in the Indian subcontinent to spin carded wool, cotton, silk, nettle or hemp into…
Also spelt gad, it is a type of block used in textile block-printing. The image in the block is carved…
Also known as a heald wire or heddle, it is the part of the loom through which warp threads are…
Film cameras that produce images larger than 24 mm x 36 mm but smaller than 4 inches x 5 inches.
A loom that uses three shuttles to create saris with a dense weave and solid colours. It utilises two shuttles…
Also known as rigid heddle looms, they feature a single shaft wherein heddles are fixed in place and resemble the…
A nineteenth-century method of producing photographic negatives using a glass plate coated with a silver emulsion. While relatively inexpensive and…