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Designs in Danger: a rehousing solution for oversized transparent papers...
The Board of Trade (BT) 43 Design Registers, held at The National Archives in London, offer a unique insight into Victorian design between the 1840s and 1880s. These are large and complex stationery...
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The Gathering is hiring!
The Book & Paper Gathering is delighted to announce that we are looking for volunteers to help produce our ever-expanding collection of articles for the conservation and cultural heritage...
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Under Raking Light: Theresa Zammit Lupi PhD, ACR
Who are you and what do you do?I am a freelance book and paper conservator based in Malta. I consult for libraries and archives as well as for private collectors, and I am a visiting lecturer on...
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日本の著名な哲学者の直筆ノートを水損から救うプロジェクト A project to save autobiographical notes of a...
NISHIDA Kitaro (1870-1945) was a leading Japanese philosopher and honorary professor at Kyoto University. His An Inquiry into the Good, published in 1911, has sold more than a million copies and has...
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My favourite tool: Rosy Lamera’s wooden nails
My favourite tool is not exactly a tool, but rather an everyday object that can be modified to create wooden bookbinding nails. In my first attempts to create these nails I used wood offcuts, but not...
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Somer’s ‘Kalendarium’, Part 1: folded tabs
Ed. note: this is the first in a two-part series of extracts from the author’s recently published investigation into a rare example of a mediaeval folded manuscript. Part 2, detailing the arrangement...
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Somer’s ‘Kalendarium’, Part 2: Arrangement of text and leaves
Ed. note: this is the second in a two-part series of extracts from the author’s recently published investigation into a rare example of a mediaeval folded manuscript. Part 1, examining the...
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Under Raking Light: Jonathan Ashley-Smith
It’s a challenge, emerging from lockdown into the light — raking light, no less. But we’ve got one conservator who’s fortified and raring to go… Who are you and what do you do?My name is Jonathan...
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The Gathering’s Cabinet of Curiosities: A historical recipe for ink restoration
Christopher Harvey This historical recipe for the restoration of faded iron gall ink was discovered several years ago by a researcher at the College of Arms and pointed out to the College’s then...
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On hair again: Conservation of a flocked papier-maché bulldog toy
Memoria Technica is a private conservation studio based in Seattle and owned by Brittany Nicole Cox, antiquarian horologist and conservator of dynamic objects. Amongst the usual clocks and automatas,...
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My Favourite Tool: Heather Murphy’s soldering iron for leather drawing
Soldering iron The idea for this tool adaptation emerged as I was experimenting with some leather offcuts. Having trained originally as a paper conservator and just started a job at the British...
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Decisions and Methods: Washing a 19th-Century Oversized Watercolour
A Bit of Context My final project for the MA Conservation at Camberwell College of Arts was the conservation of a nineteenth-century watercolour depicting Elphinstone College in Mumbai, by the British...
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What can heritage science do for you?
By Lucia Burgio on behalf of the Heritage Science Expert Working Group Close-up of Raman microscope with laser beam on. Photography by Lucia Burgio (2020) © Victoria and Albert Museum If you have...
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A gargantuan challenge: washing and buffering enormous pages — on a shoestring
By Elizabeth Fagg-Shuttlewood The reality of conservation is that while there are some amazing pieces of expensive equipment available to big institutions with big budgets, many conservators work...
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Under Raking Light: Christopher Harvey
Illumination (raking or otherwise) is the order of the day. In the latest from our regular series, there’s insight and inspiration aplenty from Christopher Harvey. Who are you and what do you...
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Modelling pandemics and paper collections
Recently we published a paper called “A Comparison of Preservation Management Strategies for Paper Collections“, in which we used a mathematical model to predict how paper collections will respond to...
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The Gathering’s Cabinet of Curiosities: My Goodness, My Spokeshave
If you find yourself in Dublin, a visit to the Guinness storehouse is a must. Who could deny that? So much to learn, so many facts presented to you in such an organised way – plus a free pint!...
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My Favourite Tool: Paula Steere’s headband helper without a name
This nameless tool (see Fig. 1) was a revelation when trying to sew an endband with three colours, four threads and two cores. Fig. 1: Wooden tool (to the left of the photograph) holding the core that...
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Under Raking Light: Kristine Rose-Beers
Ireland might have one of the lowest levels of sunshine hours in Europe, but you’ll be positively flooded with golden rays from our latest profile, direct from Dublin. Who are you and what do you...
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Cast in a different mould: a silicone mould for adding leather grain texture...
As a part of my final MA project at the Camberwell College of Arts, I did a conservation treatment for the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum in London. The museum had in its possession an album of press...
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