Handmade in Bolton
Season 1
2019 · 4 episodes
1. Visigothic Brooch
2019-10-07 · 30m
Oxford historian Dr Janina Ramirez sets Shaun Greenhalgh, once a prolific forger, the challenge of making a jewelled eagle brooch of the kind worn by Visigoth chieftains in the Dark Ages.
2. Nottingham Alabaster
2019-10-09 · 30m
Dr Janina Ramirez sets ex-forger Shaun Greenhalgh the challenge of making an alabaster carving of the kind mass-produced in Catholic England in the centuries before the Reformation.
3. Palissy Plate
2019-10-14 · 30m
Ex-forger Shaun Greenhalgh is set the task of making a Renaissance animal plate of the type invented by the great French potter Bernard Palissy.
4. Rock Crystal Bottle
2019-10-13 · 30m
Dr Janina Ramirez sets ex-forger Shaun Greenhalgh the almost impossible task of carving an Islamic bottle out of rock crystal in the style of the 10th-century Egyptian Fatimids.
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