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Shows artists and crafts specialists preserving and restoring a Russian palace, a Dusenberg automobile, and turn-of-the-century carousel, the square-rigged ship Elissa, and a World War I Curtiss ‘Jenny’...
Based around the unique slide collection built up over more than 30 years by Reginald Hill. The two videos trace the development of enamelling from its earliest origins to the present day. The emergence and...
Hobson & Sons, military embroiders and manufacturers of regimental colours and military badges, moved from Soho to new London premises. The recording shows the company at work before the move.
By using original material and shots of old techniques, the successive steps in the process of making a manuscript are shown: 1) the preparations of a parchment, 2) the work of the copyist, 3) the activity...
Demonstrates the production of nine of the most popular colletts for a variety of synthetic gems. Most of the processes are shown in big close-up. The finished colletts are mounted onto a demonstration bar...
A documentary of fashion designer Helen Littman and her company English Eccentrics. She tells her story from childhood through her education, her early days in fashion to the time the programme focuses on,...
Explains the basic methods of dyeing fibre and pieces in the workshop. Demonstrates the process from identification of the fibre, the choice of dye and additive, and explains their interrelationship in the...
Peter Lees shows how to use Shirlastains and burning tests in the workshop - a demonstration of two techniques for identifying uknown fibres.
Documentary about the lives of Ernest Gimson, Ernest Barnsley and Sidney Barnsley three young British architects, who, in the early 1890s, were inspired by the ideas of William Morris to settle in the...
A general introduction to wood and its uses in craft work. Shows the growth of a tree and shows a tree felled, and its conversion to timber in a sawmill. Discusses different hard- and softwoods as well as...
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