Ian Mckay

Sign the Petition Save the Latin Excellence Programme - keep teaching Latin in state schools

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16.01.2025 07:16 — 👍 29    🔁 20    💬 0    📌 1

The jaw dropping early C16th angel roof at St. Wendreda's in March, Cambridgeshire - Sir John Betjeman said it was "worth cycling forty miles into a headwind to see." It's hard to believe that this beautiful example of medieval craftsmanship is under threat #thread

10.01.2025 07:46 — 👍 380    🔁 83    💬 18    📌 8

Thank you. One last question, is there any soldering or granulation involved, how does it all go together?!

22.12.2024 05:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

So beautiful. Having been up close, can you tell me how the gold rings at either end are fixed to the body of the piece?

21.12.2024 21:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Faience beads made from a modern recipe with copper oxide and copper carbonate additions. Beads moulded round a wheat straw core.

Further pyro experiments in progress. 'Trying some faience recipes with copper oxide and carbonate additions. So far, the segmented beads are easiest to reproduce by rolling a tube of faience paste over the teeth of a comb. Wheat straw makes an even, rounded core.....

07.12.2024 14:48 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

There are some fabulous ones at the Salisbury Museum, too.

03.12.2024 08:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Gold disc with applied gold granules in classic triangles and flower petal shape. Granulation is an ancient technique, perfected by the Etruscans.

Recent first attempt in 22 carat gold of the ancient technique of granulation, after some days of expert tuition with the fantastic and hugely knowledgeable, Linda Lewin. This is the size of a 1 pence piece. Roughly!

15.11.2024 10:38 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 1