Exploring a one-of-a-kind 17th century Mughal hunting coat | Fashion Unpicked

This extraordinarily rare hunting coat was made at the Mughal court in the first half of the 17th century. Richly embroidered in extremely fine chain stitch on a white satin ground, it features detailed images of wild cats, deer and rabbits, flowers, blossoming trees, birds, bugs and landscapes. Chain-stitch embroidery of this type is associated with the highly-skilled embroiderers of Gujarat, on the western coa...

How was it made? Kiln-casting a glass sculpture | Colin Reid

Artist Colin Reid makes dramatic kiln-cast glass sculptures, incorporating impressions of found objects and forms from nature. Follow Colin as he sails to remote shorelines in the Scottish Highlands, where he uses silicone putty to take a moulded impression of the rocky landscape, capturing the natural fissures and textures of volcanic rock, without leaving a trace. Back in his studio, Colin transforms the impression, building ...

ASMR at the museum: Packing objects for a new home

// Listen with headphones for best experience // How do you move over 250,000 museum objects, 350,000 library books and nearly 1,000 archives from one side of London to the other? Join Collections Move Team Manager Ruby Hodgson as we prepare to move the V&A collections from our storage facility in west London, to their new home at V&A East Storehouse in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Capturing these last moments in the historic buil...

Wicked women? 500 years of witches