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January 2, 2013 09:45 pm PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/JHsEolO4EWM/recreating-19th-century-face-j.html
Recreating 19th-century face jugs with 3D scanning and printing technology
(MSOE staff member Jordan Weston shows the finished rapid-prototyped piece constructed of sintered nylon.) The face vessels made by African-Americans 150 years ago in Edgefield, South Carolina, might have been small, but they told big stories -- stories of cultural movement, human survival, spiritualism and technological prowess, according to Jon Prown, director for the Chipstone [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/JHsEolO4EWM/recreating-19th-century-face-j.html
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