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Threads:What Governs Our Understanding of Beauty?

open access: yesGlobal Africa
Charlene Komuntale is a mixed media artist based in Kampala, Uganda. Her current body of work, Threads, explores the systems that shape how we understand beauty.
Charlene Komuntale
doaj   +1 more source

Painless Biosensing for Non‐Invasive Health Monitoring: Advances, Platforms and Future Directions

open access: yesElectrochemical Science Advances, Volume 6, Issue 5, October 2026.
ABSTRACT Non‐invasive biosensing has expanded blood‐based diagnostics into a growing set of accessible peripheral biofluids, yet most existing reviews remain confined to sweat, tears, saliva and urine, and treat the underlying literature descriptively rather than critically.
Ayub Alam   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Archaeological textile item – vestment paraman: research and conservation-restoration

open access: yesTyragetia, 2020
The paper presents the research and the conservation-restoration treatment of the Metropolitan Gavriil Bănulescu-Bodoni’s vestment – the paraman discovered as a result of archaeological excavations in the area of the Căpriana Monastery in the Republic of
Mariana Gugeanu
doaj  

Jewelled Byzantine and Medieval Reliquaries of the True Cross: Peridots and Other Gemstones in Material and Symbolic Perspective

open access: yesJournal of Raman Spectroscopy, Volume 57, Issue 10, Page 1727-1756, October 2026.
An interdisciplinary in situ study of jewelled reliquaries of the True Cross integrates gemmology and portable analytical techniques, revealing new evidence on the identification and symbolic role of peridots and other gemstones. ABSTRACT Jewelled crosses containing relics of the True Cross occupy a central position in the devotional, artistic and ...
Stefania Martiniello   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Designs for the International Hand and Lock Prize for Embroidery Awards

open access: yes, 2007
Background - With mass production and fashion flooding the market, traditional arts and crafts such as embroidery have recently seen a decline in their adoption. This has been mostly due to the laborious process of making involved.
Clifton-Cunningham An
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Refining the Production Date of Historical Palestinian Garments Through Dye Identification

open access: yesHeritage
The dyes used to produce two Palestinian garments from the British Museum’s collection attributed to the late 19th–early 20th century were investigated by high pressure liquid chromatography coupled with diode array detector and tandem mass spectrometry (
Diego Tamburini   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Design And Development of Embroidery Using Photoluminescent Thread On Safety Gear Apparel

open access: yesInternational Journal For Multidisciplinary Research
This study addresses low visibility in low-light conditions, a major cause of nighttime accidents, by evaluating photoluminescent thread embroidery jackets. Unlike traditional high-visibility gear, these jackets provide self-sustained illumination, enhancing safety for motorcyclists, roadside workers, and outdoor enthusiasts.
Sivarithanya Viswanathan -   +1 more
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‘More Beastliness Than Beauty’: Gendering Pica in Seventeenth‐Century English Medicine and Culture

open access: yesGender &History, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 752-764, October 2026.
ABSTRACT Today, defined as the ‘persistent eating of non‐nutritive substances’, pica is a lesser‐known eating disorder with a long history. Defined in early modern England as the ‘desire to eat absurd things’, pica was explicitly gendered, associated with pregnant women and pubescent girls.
Helena C. Aeberli
wiley   +1 more source

Thread Tales: Reviving Pakistan’s Hand Embroidery Traditions in the Machine Age

open access: yesInternational Journal of Advanced Engineering Research and Science
This paper examines the revival of hand embroidery in Pakistan through the framework of "Thread Tales," contextualizing it within global artisan movements and cultural sustainability, and portraying embroidery as a medium that is expressive, narrative, and culturally regenerative.
Simran Khan, Xinhua Li, Mahnoor Munir
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