He takes the ends of thread and ties them one by one to the special hooks on the specially adapted bicycles wheel
Slide showing the process of silk string manufacture by Rihzhon Khojakhanov and his family
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Photograph: Acker Bilk with a Boosey and Hawkes drumkit
object | ARC/MCG/PH/0150
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Receipt
object | ARC/HMG/CM/009/001/F03/019
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Horniman's Museum Proposed Dynastic Grave. Drawing 47
object | ARC/HMG/BD/001/001/001/003
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Photograph: Eric McGavin performing maintenance on a clarinet
object | ARC/MCG/PH/1427
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