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From fleece to the fibre of local identity: the man in the foreground wears a traditional Fair Isle jumper for working with sheep

Making the cloth that binds us: spinning, weaving and island identity

10 Nov 2012

Ben Cartwright, a member of Cambridge’s Material Culture Lab, is an archaeologist whose research focuses on the ways in which the crafts of spinning...

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Suvi's ponytail

Rapunzel, Leonardo and the physics of the ponytail

13 Feb 2012

New research provides the first mathematical understanding of the shape of a ponytail and could have implications for the textile industry, computer...

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