Soap manufacturing industry

Place Asia: Singapore, Changi
Accession Number ART26518
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 18.4 x 27.1 cm (irregular)
Object type Work on paper
Physical description brush and ink and wash on paper
Maker Griffin, Murray
Place made Singapore: Changi
Date made 1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Depicting three of the various stages of soap making in the Changi prisoner-of-war camp, by prisoners with improvised equipment. Extreme left; many washings of wood ash to produce potassium carbonate. Centre; Potassium carbonate boiled with lime to produce caustic potash. Right; Evaporated to make a strong solution.