From mysterious knitting needles to strange silhouettes: recreating historical clothing
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How to Recreate a Knitted Cap From the 16th Century
I've learned how to do radiocarbon dating with some samples I had permission to take from the caps, which help us think about whether we can date them more accurately. And most recently, I have been to work with a colleague in Lisbon in Portugal who's a DICE specialist to look at new exciting techniques to examine DICE by using the tiniest amounts of an original item. So that's the kind of thing I think we should be pushing for, is more cutting-edge analysis of the original material. In the same way that now paintings are routinely x-rayed, the paint and the technique of the artist is examined to help explain the context of the painting in more
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