How Everything Is Made on Instagram: "Back in the 1800s and early 1900s, globes were entirely handmade 🌍 They began as hollow spheres formed from papier-mâché or plaster, shaped carefully by hand long before any map was applied. Once the surface was ready, mapmakers glued narrow, curved paper strips—called gores—onto the sphere one by one, aligning them precisely so continents, oceans, and borders actually matched. Many globes were then hand-colored and sealed with varnish, giving them the warm