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Banner Collection
Posted: March 29, 2020I carried out a textile survey for 35 textile items and prepared treatment proposals / estimates for fourteen banners. The banners varied in size, complexity and condition it was an excellent opportunity to conserve the collection. All 14 banners were conserved using a variety of techniques. Conservation work involved: full photography and written documentation, surface / spot and wet cleaning, humidification, dyed suitable support fabric and stitch / adhesive support of weak areas. I carried out a workshop for inhouse staff about handling and packing textiles. I also provided a collection / delivery service for the client. The banners will be on occasional display and be used for study purposes. -
Tain Papal Bull – 1492
Posted: March 27, 2020The Papal Bull was badly stretched in its frame, due to fluctuations and being adhered all the way round on a card mount. Previous repairs were becoming distorted, with adhesive giving up. -
Lady Matheson photo album
Posted: March 27, 2020The Lady Matheson photo album is a casebinding with a blue cloth cover and black leather spine - inner wove paper pages. The sewing is loose and the boards have broken away from the text block. The photographs have oxidised, and most of the pages require repair - tears and losses through the volume. As part of the project the photographs have been digitised and the volume restored. -
Regality Register of Abbey Register
Posted: March 27, 2020The Regality Register of Arbroath is a working manuscript between 1178 – 1560 It would have originally been bound in vellum, approximately around the 18thc, when the manuscript was handed to Arbroath Town, is the likely time it was re-bound in soft red leather. The volume required some restoration, so it was decided to cover the volume back into a traditional material used around 1178. -
Aberdeen Tax Assessment Registers – Early 19thc
Posted: March 27, 2020This has been an ongoing project for Aberdeen City Archives Tax Assessment Registers, just completed 2015 - 2019 -
Plan of the property of Cluny Macpherson in the County of Inverness Exclusive of Aberarder
Posted: March 26, 2020An estate plan owned by a private client, covered in sellotape! -
St Martin’s Church, Canterbury
Posted: March 20, 2020The in-situ conservation of the three light stained glass window. The careful weatherproofing and conservation cleaning internally and externally of the stained glass surface. -
Knole, Sevenoaks
Posted: March 20, 2020Chapel – East Window The internal and external conservation and restoration of the stained and leaded glazing. -
Windsor Castle
Posted: March 20, 2020The removal of leaded glazing and ferramenta. The CVMA numbering of the leaded panels for future reference. The secure boarding of the stone window apertures. -
Holy Trinity Church, Wallington, Greater London
Posted: March 20, 2020The studio conservation of cracked and broken glass fragments. The painting and kiln firing of replacement glass fragments.