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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Upright handloom traditionally used for tapestry and carpet weaving, in which the warp threads are stretched vertically between roller-beams at…
A small circular hole used in optics and photography as an aperture for a light beam to pass through and…
A loom that uses three shuttles to create saris with a dense weave and solid colours. It utilises two shuttles…
A traditional hand spindle used for spinning yarn from fibre in the Takli hand-spinning technique from Kutch, Gujarat. From the…
Also known as a heald wire or heddle, it is the part of the loom through which warp threads are…
A unique digital certificate or token that authenticates the ownership of a virtual or physical asset such as a collectible,…
Historic period of rapid economic, technological, and social transformation that began in Britain in the mid-eighteenth century. The term was…
Also known as rigid heddle looms, they feature a single shaft wherein heddles are fixed in place and resemble the…