Post-doctoral researcher Dan Vallejo prepares a loom fiber sample for scanning electron microscopy.

An NSF ADVANCE postdoctoral scholar in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, together with Dr. Nasreen Khan (postdoctoral scholar at the Paper Museum/RBI) used chemistry and material science analysis tools to investigate a loom in the Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking collection. This loom was connected with the history of the Indian subcontinent and Gandhi.

 

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