Brass, pewter & cutlery in the collections
Objects from the V&A's brass, pewter and cultery collections.
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Caring for your pewter & tinware
An overall set of basic guidelines for caring for your pewter and tinware. It describes the difference between the …
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Brass, pewter & cutlery reading list
Recommended reading about brass, pewter and cutlery
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Caring for your metal objects
How to care for your metal objects, from identifying the metals and other materials, spotting immitations, identify…
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Filling a Gap: Recent acquisitions of turned wood at the V&A
Until very recently, the V&A has made little effort to represent the art of wood turning in its collection. The discipline involves shaping wood on a lathe, and often altering it through carving or other techniques.
Teachers' resource: 50 ways to use museum postcards
Postcards are a cheap and widely available resource. A postcard collection can become an invaluable tool for a teacher because the same cards can be used in endless different ways. The teaching ideas here are aimed at catching students' interest before, during or after a museum visit, but most can also be adapted to form part of normal classroom teaching for any age group or ability.
Cleaning metals: basic guidelines
Once you have thoroughly examined your object and identified any potential problem areas, prepare your piece for basic cleaning using these guidelines.
Design for Life V&A projects
Find out about Design for Life projects run at the V&A with both school and community groups.
Memory Maps: 'Mud Language' by Michèle Roberts
Every morning I walked in to work from the nearby village of Wivenhoe where I rented a room from a sad widow. I was a widow myself, in a manner of speaking (a divorce is a kind of death), but you wouldn't have known it to look at me unless you thought all women of thirty-five were in mourning.
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'Triquetra' Napkin Rings (Set of 6)
Designed by Emma-Kate Francis and manufactured by Wentworth Pewter.
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