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Ooho edible water bottle | Object in Focus | V&A
251 views / 0 likes - addedWhat if we found an edible replacement for plastic bottles? Join Curator May Rosenthal Sloan as she shares how new approaches are making packaging more sustainable. This film was produced for our FOOD: Bigger than the Plate exhibition, 2019. Take a look a
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How was it made? Stained glass window | V&A
233 views / 0 likes - addedWatch as a medieval stained glass panel in our collection is reproduced using centuries-old techniques. The original Entry into Jerusalem panel came from the choir windows in Erfurt Cathedral in eastern Germany, and was part of a scene dedicated to the Pa
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How was it made? 3D Scanning & Printing
434 views / 0 likes - addedTo mark the refurbishment of the Cast Courts in 2018, the V&A commissioned Rapidform at the Royal College of Art to produce 3D scans of 23 objects in the collections. Reproduced here is one example of a plaster print of a silver and glass flask which
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How was it made? Micromosaics
674 views / 0 likes - addedThe Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection includes some of the world’s most spectacular Micromosaics. This film explores this astonishing technique through the recreation of a historic micromosaic, made from millimetre-thin canes of glass. Discove
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How was it made? Calotypes
477 views / 0 likes - addedWilliam Henry Fox Talbot patented the Calotype process in 1841. It is the direct ancestor of modern photography because it used a negative permitting multiple positive prints to be made from the negative and development of the latent image. Rob Douglas sp
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Magic Lantern Slides
421 views / 0 likes - addedMagic lantern slides brought the world to life in pictures. The first lantern slides were created in the 1600s, around 200 years before photography was invented and they provided spectacular entertainment and education in the way that cinema does today. T
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How an 18th-century agateware teapot was made
589 views / 0 likes - addedIn this video Michelle Erickson recreates an 18th-century agateware teapot in the V&A's collection. Michelle Erickson was Ceramics Resident: World Class Maker at the V&A, July -- September 2012
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Manufacturing plywood boards: then and now
468 views / 0 likes - addedPlywood is a simple material made by glueing together thin sheets of wood, known as veneers or plies. These basic elements have remained broadly the same throughout its history. The most significant breakthrough in its production came in the early 1800s w
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