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	 		<title>Old photographs, new knowledge</title>
			<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 09:16:51 GMT</pubDate>	 
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	 		<description><![CDATA[Caroline Cornish, who has recently finished her PhD thesis on the history of Kew's Museum of Economic Botany, describes an exciting discovery of old photographs in the Netherlands<br/>
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	 		<title>On Wallace and sago cakes</title>
			<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 17:00:55 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
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	 		<description><![CDATA[In this guest post Bill Baker, a palm expert at Kew, reports on a culinary connection between botanists past and present<br/>
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	 		<title>Washi: the Art of Japanese Paper</title>
			<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 10:12:53 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/economic-botany/washi:-the-art-of-japanese-paper.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[Kew&rsquo;s world-class collection of Japanese art papers goes on display for the first time in Britain.<br/>
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	 		<title>Wax wonders</title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2012 14:40:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/economic-botany/Wax-Wonders.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[In the Victorian period, creating wax models of flowers was both a ladylike craft, and an important tool for botanical communication.<br/>
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	 		<title>Woods of the World</title>
			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:20:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/economic-botany/Woods-of-the-world.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[Each year we host over 200 researchers in the Economic Botany Collection. It's always a pleasure to see their work making it into print, and no more so than with Adam Bowett's magnificent new book, <em>Woods in British furniture-making 1400-1900</em>.<br/>
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	 		<title>Indigo blues</title>
			<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2012 17:45:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/economic-botany/Indigo-blues.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[Jennifer Beasley and Stella Gardner, two textile conservation students at Glasgow University, report on a week's placement at Kew.<br/>
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	 		<title>Conservation at Camberwell</title>
			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:10:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/economic-botany/conservation-at-camberwell.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[Once again, students at Camberwell College of Arts have breathed life into historical objects &ndash; this year, rice paper drawings, an Amazonian shield and a Canadian cradle.<br/>
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	 		<title>Putting the Economic Botany Collection online</title>
			<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 12:10:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/economic-botany/putting-the-economic-botany-collection-online.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[Regular readers will have noticed a long pause since my last blog post. That's because we've been working hard on getting the Economic Botany Collection online.<br/>
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	 		<title>An ethnobotanical new year</title>
			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:50:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/economic-botany/ethnobotanical-new-year.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[This autumn Kew welcomed the 14th intake of students into the joint University of Kent/Kew MSc in Ethnobotany.&nbsp; In a packed two days the students were introduced to Kew's collections, had an intensive day of plant-collecting, and heard this year's Distinguished Ethnobotanist lecture.<br/>
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	 		<title>Conservators care for tapa cloth at Kew</title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/economic-botany/caring-for-tapa.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[Two conservation students from Camberwell College of Arts have spent three weeks surveying barkcloth specimens from the Pacific.<br/>
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	 		<title>The mysterious hanging diagrams of Museum No. 2</title>
			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/economic-botany/mysterious-hanging-diagrams.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[One of Kew's PhD students investigates the beautiful posters that once hung in Kew's museums.<br/>
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	 		<title>A Journey to the &#39;Land of Many Waters&#39;</title>
			<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/economic-botany/journey-to-the-land-of-many-waters.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[Sara Albuquerque updates us on her journey to Guyana, in the footsteps of Sir Everard im Thurm.<br/>
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	 		<title>Collecting curators</title>
			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/economic-botany/collecting-curators.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[Find out what happened when the curators of four major collections of useful plants recently came together at Kew.<br/>
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	 		<title>Introducing First Time Out</title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/economic-botany/first-time-out1.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[Five museums, five objects from the stores, five interpretations&hellip;<br/>
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	 		<title>High Society - the culture and history of mind-altering drugs</title>
			<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/economic-botany/the-culture-and-history-of-mind-altering-drugs.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[Kew's Economic Botany Collection has been a major lender of psychoactive plants to the Wellcome Collection's exhibition 'High Society'.<br/>
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	 		<title>Eco-fibres old and new</title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/economic-botany/eco-textiles-old-and-new.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[Sustainable fibres are ever more popular with consumers and designers. The Textile Society's recent conference compared historic and contemporary approaches to the subject.<br/>
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	 		<title>Retracing the footsteps of Everard Im Thurn in Guyana</title>
			<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 15:43:41 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/economic-botany/living-objects-beyond-museum-walls.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[The South American country of Guyana (formerly British Guiana) has a rich biological and cultural heritage, well-represented in Kew's Economic Botany Collection. A research project seeks to view the historic collections in the context of today's people and environment.<br/>
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	 		<title>Tapa cloth and the forgotten women of the Bounty mutiny</title>
			<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/economic-botany/Tapa-cloth-and-the-forgotten-women-of-the-Bounty-mutiny.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[A visitor to Kew sheds light on tapa cloth made 170 years ago by her Polynesian forebears.<br /><br /><br/>
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	 		<title>Kew helps celebrate the 350th birthday of Sir Hans Sloane</title>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/economic-botany/celebrating-hans-sloane.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[Jamaican artefacts from Kew go on display at the Royal College of Physicians - marking the 350th anniversary of the birth of Sir Hans Sloane, botanist, physician and collector.<br/>
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	 		<title>On the trail of the lace-bark tree of Jamaica</title>
			<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 08:05:32 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/economic-botany/to-jamaica-on-the-trail-of-the-lacebark-tree.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[The lace-bark tree is the source of a beautiful natural lace, and was a vital part of Jamaican culture for 400 years. Inspired by lace-bark artefacts at Kew, Emily Brennan and Lori-Ann Harris search out the tree and its users in the Jamaican countryside.<br/>
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