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The optical properties of the Woodburytype - An alternative printing technique based on a gelatine/pigment matrix (2020)
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The Woodburytype is a 19th century photomechanical printing method, producing high-quality continuous-tone images that use a suspension of carbon black in gelatine as a relief print, in which the variation in height of the print produces the grayscal... Read More about The optical properties of the Woodburytype - An alternative printing technique based on a gelatine/pigment matrix.

Books of the future (2019)
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Artists’ books have built and aligned their status according to the value of the printed book, so will arrive at their fate in parallel. If digital reading is going to be the majority method of the future, then how will physical books survive? And w... Read More about Books of the future.

Digging up the past (2019)
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A new series of collaborative artists' books by Tamar MacLellan & Philippa Wood explores the contents of our gardens

Posted/Unposted (2019)
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Exploring a project curated by Dr Angie Butler and Imi Maufe celebrating letterpress printing practice in the UK and Ireland

Visceral language: A phenomenological approach to contemporary letterpress-printed artist’s book practice in the UK (2019)
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The decline of commercial letterpress printing and technological advances in industry were major influential factors with respect to the establishment of independent small presses in the United Kingdom (UK). Although unlike work from commercial, pri... Read More about Visceral language: A phenomenological approach to contemporary letterpress-printed artist’s book practice in the UK.

Maternal art and post-natal wellbeing: Proximity and separation in Lena Simic’s Contemplation Time (2007-8) and Eti Wade’s Jocasta (2008) (2019)
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This article discusses two photographic artworks that challenge popular narratives of failed or achieved maternal femininity. My readings of Lena Simic’s Contemplation Time: a document of maternity leave (2007-8) and Eti Wade’s Jocasta (2008) are inf... Read More about Maternal art and post-natal wellbeing: Proximity and separation in Lena Simic’s Contemplation Time (2007-8) and Eti Wade’s Jocasta (2008).

Screen-printed graphite nanoplate conductive ink for machine learning enabled wireless radiofrequency-identification sensors (2019)
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In this study, we demonstrate sustainable conductive screen printing ink containing graphite nanoplates (GNPs) prepared by means of combining shear and ultrasonication exfoliation processes with the aid of mixed-solvent strategy of isopropanol (IPA)-... Read More about Screen-printed graphite nanoplate conductive ink for machine learning enabled wireless radiofrequency-identification sensors.

All Inkjet-Printed Graphene-Silver Composite Ink on Textiles for Highly Conductive Wearable Electronics Applications (2019)
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© 2019, The Author(s). Inkjet-printed wearable electronic textiles (e-textiles) are considered to be very promising due to excellent processing and environmental benefits offered by digital fabrication technique. Inkjet-printing of conductive metalli... Read More about All Inkjet-Printed Graphene-Silver Composite Ink on Textiles for Highly Conductive Wearable Electronics Applications.

‘Britain’s first media centre’: A history of Bristol’s Watershed cinema, 1964-1998 (2019)
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This article examines the genesis and development of the UK’s Watershed Cinema and Digital Creativity Centre. Established in 1982, Watershed was both the first full-time multi-screen independent cinema outside London and the first to integrate exhibi... Read More about ‘Britain’s first media centre’: A history of Bristol’s Watershed cinema, 1964-1998.

Ultrahigh Performance of Nanoengineered Graphene-Based Natural Jute Fiber Composites (2019)
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© 2019 American Chemical Society. Natural fibers composites are considered as a sustainable alternative to synthetic composites due to their environmental and economic benefits. However, they suffer from poor mechanical and interfacial properties due... Read More about Ultrahigh Performance of Nanoengineered Graphene-Based Natural Jute Fiber Composites.

From nursing Virgins to brelfies: The project of maternal femininity (2019)
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Contemporary debates about breastfeeding are saturated with ideas about what constitutes ‘good’ and ‘bad’ mothering, ‘achieved’ or ‘failed’ femininity frequently derived from Christian representations of the Virgin Mother. In this article we trace de... Read More about From nursing Virgins to brelfies: The project of maternal femininity.

Pattern at the boundaries of order (2019)
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Chaos, in the sense used by mathematicians and physicists, contains a beautiful co-mingling of order and disorder. Here, we consider the interplay between periodic order, and disorder, in both space and time. This boundary is considered in both mathe... Read More about Pattern at the boundaries of order.

Engineering Graphene Flakes for Wearable Textile Sensors via Highly Scalable and Ultrafast Yarn Dyeing Technique (2019)
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© 2019 American Chemical Society. Multifunctional wearable e-textiles have been a focus of much attention due to their great potential for healthcare, sportswear, fitness, space, and military applications. Among them, electroconductive textile yarn s... Read More about Engineering Graphene Flakes for Wearable Textile Sensors via Highly Scalable and Ultrafast Yarn Dyeing Technique.

Tools for tooling: Digital fabrication technology as the innovation enabler (2019)
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Abstract: This paper describes research concerning the creation of a novel sheet glass forming system based on the Reconfigurable Pin Tooling (RPT) principle. The paper will initially outline some of the theoretical and technical background for the r... Read More about Tools for tooling: Digital fabrication technology as the innovation enabler.

Screen printing as a 20th Century graphic medium (2019)
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Within the canon of twenty-first century printing history, screen printing is definitely the poor relation. By comparison a great deal of literature concerning the demise and continued existence of metal type and letterpress has been published and di... Read More about Screen printing as a 20th Century graphic medium.

Laser Shibori: A digital moulding technique supporting circular textile design in three dimensions (2018)
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This paper considers the potential for digital laser technology to facilitate sustainable innovation in the field of textile design and manufacture, enabling transition towards a circular economy. Using recent design research as a case study, it disc... Read More about Laser Shibori: A digital moulding technique supporting circular textile design in three dimensions.

Untitled: Women’s clothing and ageing femininity in the portraits of Chaim Soutine (2018)
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Chaim Soutine’s (1893–1943) representation of clothes in his portraits has attracted very little scholarly or curatorial attention to date. For the first time in the near century of literature that has accumulated about the artist, this article discu... Read More about Untitled: Women’s clothing and ageing femininity in the portraits of Chaim Soutine.

Editorial: Intersectional dress (2018)
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The study of dress and adornment practices is perforce the study of the materialisation of intersecting identities. Class, gender, sexuality, age, race, dis/ability and other identity markers are all writ large on an individual’s clothed body and Cre... Read More about Editorial: Intersectional dress.

Black to Black (2018)
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A technical review of specialist black printmaking papers, where to find them and how to use them.

High-Performance Graphene-Based Natural Fiber Composites (2018)
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© 2018 American Chemical Society. Natural fiber composites are attracting significant interest due to their potential for replacing synthetic composites at lower cost with improved environmental sustainability. However, natural fiber composites suffe... Read More about High-Performance Graphene-Based Natural Fiber Composites.