A Passage to India – Part 1 TAGS: conservation | indian paintings | tasawir In this week’s blog, Special Collections Conservator Emily, describes the first stage of conserving a collection of Indian portraits… I was recently asked to complete a condition report and treatment …Continue reading →

George, in Focus: Hidden Text Revealed TAGS: George Focus | hidden text | Imaging techniques | Infra-red | MA-XRF | Photoshop | Recueil de Desseins Ridicules In this week’s blog, Special Collections Conservator, Emily, discusses how she is using different imaging techniques to reveal concealed script. I was recently challenged with a seemingly impossible task in …Continue reading →

Wood you believe it? Identifying woods for conservation TAGS: MIMed | Muscial intrsument conservation | Ringve Music Museum In this week’s blog we hear from Musical Instrument Museums Edinburgh (MIMEd) Conservator, Jonathan Santa Maria Bouquet, who recently attended a training workshop on wood identification in Norway.

Boxing Clever TAGS: book boxes | Laing | Preventative Conservation | rehousing Rehousing is a key part of conservation. But why is it so important? Find out in this week’s blog from Special Collections Conservator, Emily… We recently received a large number …Continue reading →

A Taste of Conservation TAGS: Centre for Collections | Conservation Taster Day | four flap folder | infill | surface cleaning | tear repair In this week’s blog we hear from Anna O’Regan, who recently attended a Conservation Taster Day at the CRC. Anna discusses why she wanted to take part, and what she …Continue reading →

What’s the Danger? TAGS: disaster | disaster response and recovery | fire | flood | salvage In this week’s blog Project Conservator, Katharine Richardson, discusses the challenges she has faced while reviewing the CRC’s Disaster Plan…. For the last two months I have been reviewing the …Continue reading →

The Gloves Are Off! I was recently asked to rehouse a new accession to the CRC special collections; a beautiful belt previously belonging to a Scottish Suffragette made from a strip of ribbon, embroidered with …Continue reading →

Making the Invisible Visible – Repairs on Iron Gall Ink TAGS: Bathophenanthroline Indicator Paper | conservation | gelatine | Iron (ii) ions | iron gall ink | remoistenable tissue Last Friday, I attended a one-day training workshop on iron gall ink repairs. The session was organised by the Collections Care Team at the National Library of Scotland and hosted …Continue reading →

Medieval Manuscripts from the Dirt Ages TAGS: David Laing | medieval manuscripts | paper | parchment | surface cleaning February saw the start of a new project to surface clean and rehouse the CRC’s most important collection of Western medieval manuscripts, which were bequeathed to the library by David …Continue reading →

A Fond Farewell TAGS: Centre for Research Collections | Conservation Internship | Greek Books | Preventative Conservation | University of Edinburgh For the last ten weeks I have been working with Project Conservator, Emily Hick to conserve and rehouse a collection of rare Greek books. The weeks have gone racing by …Continue reading →