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...archaeological artefacts, museum objects, or sculptures). Each of these categories lends itself to a range of digital representations, which capture different aspects of the materials and allow some uses better than others. Manuscript and print Until recently, the most common means of digitising manuscripts and printed texts was the creation of digital transcriptions,...

...Archaeological evidence from tomb excavations indicates the presence of narrow, strip-weaving in the 11th century. But the technique for making patterned strips seems to date from the 16th or 17th centuries. Around 1730, Danish traders record the unravelling of imported silk to use in weaving. What is the history of Kente?...Textiles in Ghana: 5.2 History of adinkra -...

...archaeological expeditions. He suggests too a ‘Chinese pagoda’. These recommendations, combined with the profusion of mythical and exotic animals and birds which he mentions as possible adornments (chimeras, griffins, cranes, sphinxes, phoenixes), make it clear that the Pavilion's fantasy world was more mainstream in temper than perhaps it looks nowadays – albeit...

...archaeology of women artists left out of the traditional male canon. Furthermore, Kahlo was a figurative painter, which ensured that her rediscovery in the West meshed perfectly with the return to easel painting that was part and parcel of the reaction against the anti-aestheticism of Conceptual art in the 1970s. Figure 14 Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait along the Border Line...