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The evolution of a pottery wheel, and how to start improving a current pottery wheel.
The practice of burning limestone to produce quicklime is, almost literally, as old as the hills. This article demonstrates how to calculate the energy of your lime burning process.
The Upesi stove is a ceramic stove designed for rural areas of Kenya. It uses wood as its fuel source.
There are a number of approaches to preserving bamboo. This extract from Building With Bamboo looks at some of these approaches
These materials have often been regarded as waste and thrown away but it is possible to use fine biomass residues as a fuel source. This brief looks at some recent developments. " References...
This pack has been put together by ITDG-South Asia to assist those engaged in post-disaster rebuilding.
This technical brief describes the construction of a pipe-bending tool that you can make with only a small number of tools. It was originally field-tested in Malawi, Zimbabwe and Botswana.
This Technical Brief outlines: the disadvantages of treating timber chemically; and means of protecting timber, including examples of protecting timber by proper felling and seasoning; by good...
This technical brief shows how a woodworking bench with vice can be made without the use of steel components.
While access to means of transport is inevitably a problem for poor people in the South, the lack of transport infrastructure can also isolate a rural area completely. Richard Tufnell demonstrates...