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My favourite tool: Cheryl Porter
For your reading pleasure, it’s yet another new feature from The Gathering…’My Favourite Tool’! In this new and ongoing series, your fellow conservators will tell you a tale about a tool that holds a...
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Course review: ‘Adhesives for Paper Conservation’
Adhesives for paper conservation This one-day course, held at Tate Britain on 23rd March 2015, was tutored by Velson Horie, Collection Care and Conservation Consultant (www.horie.co.uk). It was divided...
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The Infill: 2 April 2015
Just in time for Easter and – in the UK, at least – a nice, long bank holiday weekend, it’s your big basket of chocolate-flavoured, egg-shaped (in our vivid cocoa bean-infested imaginations, anyway)...
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My favourite tool: Isabelle Egan
My favourite tool: Isabelle Egan This tool is my ‘extra finger’. I am sure many conservators have a similar tool as their BF, and there are various models around. I sharpened the edges of this Tiranti...
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The Infill: 25 April 2015
The Infill: slogging through the Internet bog so you don’t have to. The Infill: 25 April 2015 Travel plans Spring has sprung (in the Northern Hemisphere, at least) and, like ours, your thoughts will...
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Event announcement: Light and Heritage at the Wellcome Collection, 1-4 May 2015
Three events on light and heritage this weekend This bank holiday weekend, Wellcome Collection and UCL will host ‘On Light’, a four-day programme of free events and activities to illuminate our human...
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The Non-Conservation of a Reverse Glass Print
The Non-Conservation of a Reverse Glass Print Identification, analysis and preservation Background In 1774 the Duke of Devonshire lent his collection of 200 drawings by Claude le Lorrain to the...
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Preparing Shell Gold
A guest post by Anita Chowdry My last few workshops on shell gold have been particularly rewarding as my participants have all been up for doing a little extra research and experimentation, which has...
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The Infill: 22 May 2015
The Infill. The original Infill, that is. The Infill: 22 May 2015 Roy G. Biv Whilst we doubt that any of you have forgotten (and, on the contrary, are celebrating on a regular basis), it’s nonetheless...
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My favourite tool: Bob Cresswell
My favourite tool: Bob Cresswell Although I am not a paper conservator or bookbinder, I have many friends who are in that field. Over the years I have made many specialist tools custom built for...
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Course review: ‘Adhesives and their Application’
Adhesives and their Application Hosted by the National Records of Scotland at the General Register House in Edinburgh on 5 November 2014, and organised by the Archives and Records Association...
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My Favourite Tool: Jeff Peachey’s Cady Automatic Hand Micrometer
My Favourite Tool: Jeff Peachey’s Cady Automatic Hand Micrometer I would have to rank the Cady Automatic Hand Micrometer as one of the most beautiful and well made tools I own. The E.J. Cady company is...
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Event announcement: Lapis Lazuli: Myth, Matter and Majesty
Lapis Lazuli: Myth, Matter and Majesty 15 June 2015 10.00am — 11.50am Venue: Lecture Theatre, Weston Library, Oxford (Map) Speaker(s): David Margulies introduced by Anita Chowdry This lecture and...
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The Infill: 25 June 2015
Out of touch? Out of the loop? Let us fill you in… The Infill: 25 June 2015 The supermodel edition Just in time for summer, we’ve got a bevy of beauties for you. But if you’re thinking ‘swimsuit...
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A humidification chamber ‘made-to-measure’
A humidification chamber ‘made-to-measure’ The ‘tailors’ in this case were myself and Manfred Mayer from Graz, Austria, and we accomplished it all via email! I had started with a pretty clear idea of...
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The Infill: 23 July 2015
It’s The Infill – and not the paper repair kind The Infill: 23 July 2015 What year is it again? You’re probably sick to death of us banging on about the UNESCO International Year of Light and...
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Event announcement: Library and Information History Group Conference 2015
Library and Information History Group Conference 2015: Libraries and the Development of Professional Knowledge Saturday, 19 September 2015 – 9:00am Venue: Pusey House, Oxford (Map) This conference...
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My Favourite Tool: Erin Murray’s Quilter’s Rule
My Favourite Tool: Erin Murray’s Quilter’s Rule Am I lazy? Yes. Do I love precision the way small children obsess over the order in which they eat their food? Yes. So I have come to depend on the...
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The Infill: 21 August 2015
The Infill: let us fill the cultural heritage lacunae in your brain The Infill: 21 August 2015 The dog days of summer Is it hot enough for ya? Well, here in London we’ve been absolutely roasting. Just...
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Grants for conservation of manuscripts – deadline 1st October 2015
The National Manuscripts Conservation Trust is offering an exciting opportunity for conservators in the UK looking for grant funds for conservation and preservation projects. Please click on the images...
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