The Brass

The Workshop
The 70/30 brass alloy that built the Birmingham trade — what it is, how we cast it, why patina is the point.
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Hardware for the English country kitchen

The Workshop, Birmingham
The hardware on a country kitchen is the last thing chosen and the first thing seen. A note on choosing brass for hand-painted joinery — what works, what jars, what reads as English.
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Living with unlacquered brass: a guide

The Workshop, Birmingham
Unlacquered brass starts bright. It does not stay that way. A guide to what happens next, what to do about it (mostly nothing), and what never to do.
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Turner, Winfield, and 200 years of Birmingham brass

The Workshop, Birmingham
From Turner's Brass House in 1740 to R.W. Winfield's Cambridge Street works in 1820 — the two families and the city that built British brass-founding.
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