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 technology for drilling developed during the Mature Phase (c. 2600–1900 BCE) of the Indus Valley Civilisation. It was made…
Film cameras that produce images larger than 24 mm x 36 mm but smaller than 4 inches x 5 inches.
Also spelt gad, it is a type of block used in textile block-printing. The image in the block is carved…
Upright handloom traditionally used for tapestry and carpet weaving, in which the warp threads are stretched vertically between roller-beams at…
A transparency projector used to produce photographic prints from negatives and transparencies. Enlarging became popular in the mid to late…
Glass that has been given a coarse surface finish, usually with a fine abrasive, to be used as the viewfinder…
Also known as rigid heddle looms, they feature a single shaft wherein heddles are fixed in place and resemble the…
Simple camera consisting of a light-sealed cuboidal box that has a lens fixed to one end, and the photographic film…