Armament is one of the project's four focus areas. This nineteenth-century Indian watercolour gives an insight into the global adoption and adaptation of firearms. Wellcome Library no. 576313i

Textile technologies are one of the project’s four focus areas. Bowing Cotton in India. Watercolour ca 1800? Wellcome Library no. 576236i. Public Domain Mark

Textile technologies are one of the project’s four focus areas. This early seventeenth-century man’s cloak band, made out of linen cutwork and geometric lace, is held by our partner, The Bowes Museum, as part of the Blackborne Collection.

Ceramics are one of the project's four focus areas. This late 17th-century Japanese Arita blue and white porcelain jar is held by our partner museum, the Durham Oriental Museum: DUROM.2006.75. Bequeathed by Dr H. Muir.

Instrument making is one of the project’s four focus areas. This mechanical mouse is on display in one of our partner museums, The Bowes Museum.

Ceramics are one of the project's four focus areas. This pen and ink drawing shows potters at work in China. Wellcome Library no. 567857i. Public Domain

Engraving: Silk manufacture in China (London, 1750) Wellcome Library no. 44127i. Public Domain mark

Armament is one of the project's four focus areas. This South Asian long-barrelled wood and metal musket with separate bayonet fitting, made in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century is held in our partner museum, the Durham Oriental Museum (DUROM.U11118)

Together with porcelain, instrument making is one of the project’s four focus areas. This soft-paste porcelain Rococo clock is on display in one of our partner museums, The Bowes Museum, in the Lady Ludlow Collection of English porcelain gifted to the museum by the Art Fund in 2003.