Japan's Plant-based Leathers
Exploring Japan's history of making 'leather' from paper, and how this became an object of modernity within the domestic interiors of Victorian Britain.
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Material Culture, Modern, Europe, Asia, Applied Arts, Technologies, Interior Space, Natural Objects
The Transcultural Values of Flower Pyramid
The Cultural Values of Dutch Delftware and its use in the UK Country House Between the Seventeenth to the Eighteenth Century
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Material Culture, Early Modern, Europe, Applied Arts, Methods of Documentation, Conservation, Transcultural Values
Museum Seats: Hidden Scripts
This work looks at embedded messages and meanings in museum seats to reveal a different angle on how museums see their collections and themselves in different times.
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Material Culture, Modern, Contemporary, Europe, Built Environment, Applied Arts, Interior Space, Museum Studies
Hidden Japanese Men’s Dress
Looking under the plain outer layers of Japanese men's dress to study the spectacular and symbolic imagery that lines beneath.
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Material Culture, Early-Modern, Modern, Asia, Textiles, Applied Arts, Decolonisation, Lived Experience, Prints
Why We Mend
This research explores the position of mending within design and society.
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Material Culture, Contemporary, Europe, Textiles, Applied Arts, Lived Experience, Knowledge Production, Conservation