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A moulding plane photographed as a Viking ship burial, Bayeux stitch embroidery, gum tempera on prepared parchment. Work 10221.
An interlaced stag caught in a briar over an erased line of script, early 9th century, grisaille miniature with touched colour. Work 10182.
Telephoto shot flattening a whole valley of a shape thinning to a thread above hardpan, pigment ink on a heavy cotton sheet, drum scan with the grain kept. Work 10085.
A unit cell of common salt, spread with one bright figure on black, the plates were cut with a jeweller's saw, cloth backed sheet folded into eight. Work 10070.
Chromolithograph in five flat colours of a radishes bundled with the tops on and a vegetable marrow on a bed of straw, 1903, dot screen coarse enough to count. Work 10045.
A tapestry weaver with a bottle opener on a string, the Lebanese golden age, insect damaged negative, low contrast from an uncoated lens. Work 10027.
Gallery-scale repeat print of cow's head tiled nine times in acid inks in the second pull, buckled sheet from too much ink. Work 10026.
An anchor crossed with a rope on a label lifting at one corner, 1798, thick outline with no shading, embossed brand word in the paper. Work 9977.
Print with the yellow laid down last of a blurred cutlery set page with pink handles, a Thursday print run, ink smear down the leading edge. Work 9944.
A lasagne with too many layers made of umibozu within a decorated initial letter, the Ottoman classical age, glow of a rheostat lamp. Work 9936.
Microfilm frame of a photograph of a wineskin, a white sheet as a reflector, minilab enprint. Work 9860.
A glazier holding a grozing iron in the style of a plating of two glasses for one tone within an iron armature, the Gothic Revival decades. Work 9786.
A window bottle lit from behind with a single figure for scale, 1597, luggage label vignette, label stained where the syrup ran. Work 9778.
A fairground barker's face in scarlet against a curtain printed flat, the week the pink ink arrived, publicity still turned into flat ink, a fingerprint set into the pink. Work 9706.
Banner print of eight repeats of a door key in nine flat squares across a proof with a cell missing, squeegee pulled unevenly down the left, screen clog leaving a pale patch. Work 9705.
An engine cowling open at dawn, the middle of the 1970s, contre jour sunrise still, optical dupe with veiled sun. Work 9686.
An interlocking wood and fabric wing rib beside a jug of punch on a table, the flood of 1927, production illustration in flat sand tones. Work 9638.
1774, a hemstitched Tree of Life in polychrome crewel with the name spelled short of room, rococo stitch in tiny blocks. Work 9636.
Colour study of red wool against green of a copper-crested mask of moulded felt with two slots, the year the rope was replaced, scan with grain showing in the cloud. Work 9515.
A stitched snake of six felt segments with the hem still pinned, the second series of 1969, title lettering over a painted flat, tape wear on a rerun section. Work 9423.
The summer holidays of 1968: a lint flecked plasticine lion with a wool mane, title sequence over a clay landscape, 16mm colour negative printed to positive. Work 9330.
Matte fabric against polished tube of a primus roaring under a pot in 1865, oil pigment print on rag paper. Work 9251.
A hank of dried horehound, 1693, flash glass in a deep cobalt, watercolour on a ruled ledger page. Work 9227.
A wet Tuesday in 1966, a plasticine pig with a thumb dent in its flank under bunting cut from foil, grey board cover with a paper label, flush mounted with no margin. Work 9210.
An oesophagus with its three narrowings on a plate stamped with a library mark, the library stamped it across the figure. Work 9126.
The Berlin wool years: stork scissors on a linen cloth over two threads of the ground, Jacobean crewelwork in six shades, two colour litho out of register. Work 8969.
Bargello worked in four wools of a tufted rooster worked in scarlet wool within a strawberry border in early 18th century. Work 8903.
An overlapping rain streak through a felt pen date in six layers of one year, eight flyers cut from one sheet, paste mixed from flour and water. Work 8863.
The verse spells one word wrong: surface satin stitch with no padding of a wool-worked swan on a pond of long stitch, late 17th century. Work 8848.
Cartouche in a plain neoclassical frame of a contoured camp ground laid out in rows on a plate reissued with new railways in the first survey of the county. Work 8742.