FRAGMENT FROM NATURE continues from last weekend and concludes this weekend on a mediaeval text about the practiced crafts of the day, including the diverse ranges of metallurgy, glassmaking including windows, and painting, particularly making paints, primers, glues and varnishes. It gives a remarkable insight into the resourceful and self-sufficient trades who had to make everything that they needed from scratch, sometimes planning a season ahead to get necessary plants in early spring. In particular, the toxic exposures they endured were unthinkable today,
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022