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The Navajo Films were made by amateur Navajo film-makers from Pine Springs, Arizona, as part of an experiment conducted by Sol Worth and John Adair in 1966 ‘to determine whether it is possible to teach...
Examines how traditional art and design play an active role in the cultural sustainability of the Zapotec communities in Oaxaca. Traces the development of the weaving process from the first people in the...
Untitled by the film maker, this film is the result of Susie Benally’s teaching her mother, Alta Kahn, how to use the camera. Similar to the daughter’s film in theme - it depicts the daughter weaving a...
Based on the excavations of the Egypt Exploration Society at Tell el-Armana and Qasr Ibrim, and presented by Dr Willemina Wendrich, Assistant Director of the Netherlands Institute of Archaeology in Cairo,...
3: The last piecing machine to operate in Britain was filmed at Bridgend on the Isle of Islay. The piecing machine’s function was to join the strips of wool, produced by the carding machine, to form...
Shows various procedures in cotton processing: spinning, weaving, dyeing, quality control, design, marking up, cutting, marketing.
Excavations at an Iron Age site. Shows scientific research and study of the Bog People, including reconstruction of dwellings, methods of weaving, ploughing, pottery-making, etc. Simulates the living...
This DVD explores a year in the county known as ‘The Garden of England’ through all four seasons. Among local people featured are farmers, smallholders, farriers, a potter, a wood carver, apple and hop...
Shows the manner in which the Navaho child learns to participate in the life of the community. Gathering food, rug weaving, silver work, bread-making and other activities are shown, with special reference to...
Shows how nylon is spun and woven into different textiles. Covers: designing and engineering the properties of nylon t suit different uses ranging from textiles to tractor tires; the polymerisation process;...
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