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	 		<title>Putting the Economic Botany Collection online</title>
			<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 12:10:00 GMT</pubDate>	 
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	 		<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>
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	 		<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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	 		<title>Reliving Kew’s Museum of Economic Botany</title>
			<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 09:28:15 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/economic-botany/Reliving-Kews-Museum-of-Economic-Botany.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[Kew's Economic Botany collection was originally housed in four buildings scattered across the Gardens. What survives of these, and what do they tell us about visitor experiences in the past? A doctoral student&nbsp; from Royal Holloway, University of London, went exploring...<br/>
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	 		<title>Our mysterious treasure from Japan is restored</title>
			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:50:54 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/economic-botany/restored-treasure-from-japan.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[Kew's Economic Botany Collection recently restored 26 decorative wood panels made in Japan in 1874. Find out more about the condition that we found them in and the process of conservation that followed.<br/>
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	 		<title>Exploring plant fibres - Are they fashionable and sustainable?</title>
			<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:09:34 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/economic-botany/fashionable-fibres.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[Students from the London College of Fashion visit Kew's Economic Botany Collection to explore the sustainability of natural fibres.<br/>
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	 		<title>Preserving the past for the future</title>
			<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:49:34 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/economic-botany/preserving-the-past-for-the-future.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[How student conservators help care for Kew's collections<br/>
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	 		<title>Fabulous Fibres Exhibition</title>
			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:00:37 GMT</pubDate>	 
	 		<author>webteam@kew.org (Kew)</author>
	 		<link>http://www.kew.org/news/kew-blogs/economic-botany/fabulous-fibres-exhibition.htm</link>
	 		<description><![CDATA[Read what happened when the Economic Botany Collection joined forces with Haslemere Museum<br/>
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