This was one of our best fixes to date. James et al worked on Tammy’s split Peruvian meat plate. We initially thought that dowels and glue would be the best solution, but we had neither dowels nor glue!

So instead, we took apart some brass hinges and used them to fasten one side of the plate to the other. You can’t see them here, but you can see the delicate inlays James carved, so the bottom of Tammy’s plate would remain flat.

Sarah brought in a broken umbrella. We weren’t able to fix it this week, because we didn’t have the appropriate parts.

But we learned a lot about how umbrellas are made by taking her umbrella apart. Once we took off the fabric, we were able to see the mechanism more clearly.

Stay tuned for more umbrella developments.

Here, Jacob and Aurora are both working on mending projects.