Checking up the thread on the twisted spool.
Slide showing the process of silk string manufacture by Rihzhon Khojakhanov and his family
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Washing out the starch from cloth dyed in indigo, Abeokuta
object | ARC/HMG/RS/STANFIELD/532/032
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Photograph of the construction site of the Horniman Museum's West Hall with a workhorse in the foreground, May 1933
object | ARC/HMG/PH/BD/003/004
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Black and white print of large boat on water, centred and featured, through trees and picket fence
object | ARC/GUP/006/050/002
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House building, window frames and bamboo scaffolding
object | ARC/HMG/RS/STANFIELD/551/013
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