Glossary of Communities Collaboration Connectivity Commemoration
A space for definitions of terms related to conservation and heritage across time, language, culture, and place.
A space about conservation, for conservation.
A space of collaborative knowledge, housing words and definitions chosen and provided by people around the world.
Knowledge is situated.
Multiple definitions coexist for the same word. Through this project, we are working to expand our understanding of what conservation and heritage are, one word at a time.
Frequently Searched Words
A collection of heritage words that embody the rich diversity and unique stories of cultures worldwide.
Masticated work, sometimes called cut work or sepia work, is a hairwork technique in which hair is finely chopped or ground into a powder, mixed with ...
Table work refers to a wide range of hairwork techniques that involve braiding and weaving hair into a jewelry. The name comes from the apparatus at t...
Palette work is a hairwork technique that involves flattening a lock of hair onto a piece of glass, covering it with gum tragacanth (sometimes referre...