A nineteenth-century method of producing photographic negatives using a glass plate coated with a silver emulsion. While relatively inexpensive and enabling quick exposure times, this method required the entire process from plate preparation to developing to be completed within fifteen minutes, making it unsuitable for portable photography.
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Also spelt gad, it is a type of block used in textile block-printing. The image in the block is carved…
A type of loom in which the shuttle, containing the weft yarn, is passed through the warp threads by hand.…
Light-sealed room used for chemically processing photographic film and making prints. While developing film requires complete darkness, prints are made…
Also known as a jala, it is an arrangement of threads that maps the desired design and is attached to…
A version of the traditional charkha which uses multiple spindles as opposed to a single spindle and is intended for…
Mechanical tool installed on a loom for textile weaving, which enables the weft thread to be drawn through the warp…
A wooden implement, it comprises vertical rods fixed on a plank around which the warp thread is wound.
A tool used to separate warp yarn threads and keep them in their place in a hand loom. It is…