Making RB11, is based on my dissertation, Design in Early Modern Materials, London 1797-1828, History of Design postgraduate program, at the Royal College of Art/V&A Museum.  As a case study, I applied my research methodology towards the analysis of an archival manuscript called MSL/1983/1 from the V&A National Art Library collection. 

The history of design dissertation is experimental with the interests to bridge the gap between theoretical & practical knowledge for artechnē (artist materials & technology) by defining design when making artisanal materials.

MSL/1983/1, is a brilliant manuscript that illustrates true artisan epistemology of material knowledge recorded by copying recipes, documenting successful recipes & experimentations of metals and precipitations. These various recipes found within the manuscript are paint of various binders, coloured glass, frits, enamels, oil varnishes, lacquers, waterproof leather stains and medicinal recipes.