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  What is watercolour?

  This is seen in the yellow-orange lichen on the tree trunk in Samuel Palmer's In a Shoreham Garden, painted…
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  Biscuit tins – a bite-sized history

  slideshow: The earliest decorated biscuit tin, 'Ben George', was commissioned in 1868 by Huntley & Palmers…
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  Making her self up – Frida Kahlo's cosmetics

  However, the flowering of the Mexican film industry at the same time – which made the Gelmans' fortune…
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  Fashioning Glastonbury Festival

  At the same time, Moss single-handedly saved Hunter Boot Ltd., a Scottish brand that had been most well-known…
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  The Luck of Edenhall

  of intersecting arches and scrolling vines set with leaves of a distinctive shape, known as 'split palmettes…
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  What makes CHANEL so iconic?

  Beaux initially created ten samples and Gabrielle Chanel chose number five: her favourite number and…
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  'The Truth About Modelling' by Jean Shrimpton

  I made up my eyes rather heavily and untidily, and wearing a pale blue mac with a fur collar and patent…
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  'King of Fashion' by Paul Poiret

  They were full of samples and water-colour sketches, which spoke eloquently of the taste of the Court…
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  Àdìrẹ – 'tied and dyed' indigo textiles

  was probably the most time consuming way of producing àdìrẹ and these cloths were not subject to the same…
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  The prison embroideries of Mary, Queen of Scots

  lengths of fabric could then be made in to curtains or covers for a bed, or hung on the wall in the same…
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  Tortoiseshell combs from Jamaica

  Still not finished, he crafted an intricate case for his creation, embellished with palm trees and the…
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  An introduction to the Aesthetic Movement

  for their 'stained-glass attitudes', overly precious speech, and enthusiasm for the curious appeal of pale…
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  Lucian Freud and etching

  This print was etched and printed by Terry Willson at Palm Tree Editions, and it shows Freud exploring…
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  'Silver and Gold' by Norman Hartnell

  Samples of the intended floral emblems had to be submitted to Her Majesty before the final decision was…
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  Grinling Gibbons – an introduction

  By setting his fresh, pale limewood carvings against dark backgrounds, they were given all the help they…
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  A brief history of K-cinema

  The film won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, an Oscar for Best Picture at the Academy Awards…
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  The arts of the Mughal Empire

  The same mingling of widely differing artistic traditions in the art of the book during Akbar's reign…
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  An A–Z of metalwork

  They are armoured steel gauntlets decorated in gold with laurel wreaths, palm branches and trophies of…
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  An A – Z of gemstones

  levels of translucency, distinctive markings and colours that range from red to orange, deep green to pale…