Showing how to tie the thread to the hook.
Slide showing the process of silk string manufacture by Rihzhon Khojakhanov and his family
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Photograph of the Horniman Museum clock tower under construction, circa 1900
object | ARC/HMG/PH/BD/004/MBP4/002
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The Ascent of Man: A Handbook to the Cases Illustrating the Structure of Man and the Great Apes, 1912
object | ARC/HMG/PB/001/038
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Receipt
object | ARC/HMG/CM/009/001/F19/110
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Photograph of a wreath laying ceremony marking the completion of the restoration of Coombe Cliffe Conservatory at the Horniman Museum in 1989
object | ARC/HMG/PH/GDN/004/003
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