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The house of Joan

The longueurs of hospital stays and enforced inactivity were the spur to Joan’s precise tailoring skills and flamboyant creations, all to the benefit of her fashion-loving sisters.

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How we visualise viruses

Discover how images of the antigens that make us sick have evolved over time and been tailored to meet the demands of different epidemics.

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Designing death in the virtual city

Danger and death are fun when they’re virtual – and when they incorporate realistic elements. Now the tables are turned, as urban planners learn from game environments.

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Medieval doodles

Fish, lute players and defaced demons: marginal doodles in some of Europe’s first printed books provide a tantalising glimpse into the late-medieval mind.

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  • Merchant Tailors' School, Suffolk Lane, London: facade. Etching by Sheppard, 1815, after himself.
  • A group of dandified tailors attending a lecture, given by a grotesquely fashionable tailor, on "anatomical cutting". Coloured etching by R. Seymour after himself, 1829.
  • Indian tailor and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Marratta tailor and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Indian tailor and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • A tailor and assistant at work. Gouache drawing.
  • Moorish tailor and wife offering him betel leaves. Gouache drawing.
  • A tailor cutting cloth with scissors while his colleagues sew at a bench. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • A shoemender and a tailor sitting on benches repairing old shoes and clothes. Etching by R. Dagley.
  • A tailor holding out a folding swatch of cloth samples. Etching by J. Bretherton after H.W. Bunbury.
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