James Carpenter discusses historic, nature-based lampwork with Paul Hollister and gives Hollister a book he illustrated on herbs. Paul Hollister Interviews with Edward Larrabee Barnes and James Carpenter, c. 1991 (Rakow title: James Carpenter interview [sound recording] / with Paul Hollister, BIB ID: 168555) Clip length: 00:50.

Paul Hollister [PH]: And of course you’ve seen all the [Herman O.] Mueller lampwork at the Natural History Museum [American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York].

James Carpenter [JC]: The one at the Peabody? [Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts]

PH: New York. New York.

JC: No, here. Right. And all the animals, and the sea life—

PH: Protozoa, diatom, radiolaria, and all—

JC: Right, right—that’s fantastic.

PH: Unbelievable.

JC: But also the collection at the Peabody, the glass flowers was always very impressive.

PH: Oh, yeah, yeah. I took my anthropology course there.

JC: I was just looking for a book that I could give you, actually. I have a—where would it be? I might have it upstairs, but I should give you a copy of a book that I did on herbs [The Herbs of Lost Thyme, by John Ferris, illustrated by James Carpenter (Shelburne Mass: The Lost Thyme Press, 1971)].

PH: On herbs?

JC: Yeah.

PH: Oh.

JC: Around ’70. Actually done around 1971.