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A Blitz on Bugs in the Bedding THE MAGAZINE OF THE INSTITUTE OF CONSERVATION • SEPTEMBER 2011 • ISSUE 36 A blitz on bugs in the bedding Also in this issue PACR news and the new Conservation Register Showcasing intern work in Ireland A 16th century clock WILLARD CONSERVATION EQUIPMENT visit us online at www.willard.co.uk Willard Conservation manufactures and supplies a unique range of conservation tools and equipment, specifically designed for use in the conservation and preservation of works of art and historic cultural media. Our product range provides a premier equipment and technology choice at an affordable price. Visit our website at www.willard.co.uk to see our wide range of conservation equipment and tools and to find out how we may be able to help you with your specific conservation needs. Willard Conservation Limited By Appointment To Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Leigh Road, Terminus Industrial Estate, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 8TS Conservation Equipment Engineers Willard Conservation Ltd, T: +44 (0)1243 776928 E: [email protected] W: www.willard.co.uk Chichester 2 inside SEPTEMBER 2011 Issue 36 It is an autumn of welcomes. 2 NEWS First, welcome to the new version of the Conservation Interesting blogs and Register which went live at the end of August. Do take a look websites , research projects, at it at www.conservationregister.com and help with putting uses for a municipal sculpture right any last minute glitches by filling in the feedback survey and a new bus shelter form. 7 Welcome, too, to the latest batch of Accredited members. 4 PROFESSIONAL UPDATE Becoming accredited and then sustaining your professional Notice of Board Elections and credentials is no walk in the park, so congratulations for the next AGM, PACR updates, completing the first stage and good luck in your future role as training and library news the profession’s exemplars and ambassadors. 15 It is also a pleasure to welcome voices from Ireland. From the PEOPLE South, where there are no formal conservation courses, we hear about training initiatives for interns and from the North 18 FREEZING MATTRESSES an Icon intern helps to conserve a Victorian time capsule 21 Historic Royal Palaces tackle uncovered during building works. pests in bed Finally, we have rounded up one or two nice conservation 21 blogs for you. In a world of relentless deadlines, it is TRAINING IN IRELAND commendable that conservators are making time to share the The role of the Heritage privilege of getting close to artefacts in this way, whilst also Council of Ireland advertising the profession so ably. If you are doing something similar, we would love to hear about it, so that we can spread 24 the word. GROUP NEWS 30 & Graduate Voice on conserving a time capsule Lynette Gill , Editor 28 REVIEWS Tanneries, decision-making, lustreware, the Mackintosh project, maritime drawings, Icon News Cover photo: Queen Anne’s State japanning, tailoring Editor Bed dating from 1715 on display in Lynette Gill The Queens Drawing room at 34 [email protected] Hampton Court Palace (October IN PRACTICE Institute of Conservation 1950 ). This bed will be re-displayed as Conserving a 16thc clock 1.5, Lafone House, Production designer part of a new exhibition to open at The Leathermarket, Malcolm Gillespie Hampton Court Palace in 2013. Weston Street [email protected] Image courtesy of The Royal London SE1 3ER Collection © 2011, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II T +44(0)20 3142 6799 Printers L&S Printing Company Limited www.ls-printing.com [email protected] Disclaimer: [email protected] Whilst every effort is made to ensure Design www.icon.org.uk accuracy, the editors and Icon Board Rufus Leonard of Trustees can accept no Chief Executive [email protected] Alison Richmond responsibility for the content [email protected] expressed in Icon News; it is solely For recruitment advertising that of individual contributors Rebecca 020 3142 6788 [email protected] Conservation Register Icon is registered as a Charity in [email protected] Deadlines: www.conservationregister.com For all other advertising England and Wales (Number Anu 020 8971 8457 For November 2011 issue 1108380) and in Scotland (Number [email protected] SC039336) and is a Company Editorial: 3 October Limited by Guarantee, (Number ISSN 1749-8988 Adverts: 17 October 5201058) ICON NEWS • SEPTEMBER 2011 • 1 around & about The Attingham videos. A sequence of three videos under Telling the world the collective title Off the Wall show a behind-the-scenes Conservation and conservators seem to be popping up all insight into the work of the National Trust at Attingham Park over the internet now. It is great that the opportunity is being in Shropshire, where a decorative Regency wallpaper scheme seized to get the message out about the fascinating work we has been restored. In the first episode, curator Sarah Kay do. Here’s just a small sample of items that have come to our introduces the project to uncover the hidden 1807 wallpaper notice recently. scheme. In the second, expert Mark Sandiford describes the history of Attingham’s wallpaper and demonstrates the detail Experts remove layers to reveal and make good the old decorative scheme and preparation needed to put it on the wall and in the third, the making and application of the paint is shown. Catch all three on YouTube at: (www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWPSGurTq5M&feature=channel _video_title). These documentaries are professionally made by Susan Jones of Redhead Business Films (www.redheadbusinessfilms.com) and she is making another one about the restoration of Attingham’s Octagon Room. Susan has also worked for the National Trust at Hanbury Hall in Worcestershire, where she shot a video about the wall paintings, which is used for visitor 2 d r o h f s i x t i O r f B o e y h t t i s f r o e s v i e n e t U s , u s r e T i r / y a r r e b l i l L a n G a i t r e l A d d o n B a © m u e s u M e l t s a C h c i m w r u e o s N u M © Conservators unfold one section of the Norwich Castle Museum’s shroud from the British Museum’s blog interpretation. The conservation of these 18c staircase wall paintings won the Perry-Lithgow Partnership the Pilgrim Trust Award for Conservation at last December’s Conservation Awards. Widening access and enjoyment of a place or an object is not the only benefit, as Susan says ‘it’s a great way of recording and archiving techniques and the lengths that curators and conservators go to, to get things right.’ Elsewhere, a National Galleries of Scotland blog can be found at http://portraitnation.wordpress.com/ where visiting conservation students have been blogging as they cleaned wall paintings ready for the opening of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. Meanwhile, at the National Maritime Museum , visit www.nmm.ac.uk/blogs/collections/conservation/ to see a wealth of stories about conservation work on the frame of a The relined map drying on Karibari board Turner picture, a ship model, one of Nelson’s uniforms, a 1794 union flag, an historic marine timekeeper, an oil painting of To celebrate the map and present it to a wider audience, a the Eddystone lighthouse and the conservation of twenty colloquium is being held this month, a future exhibition tour is seven books recording the sinking of HMS The Royal George. planned and a new website (http://seldenmap.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/) The NMM conservators really show off the wide range of has been launched. The site, designed by the Library’s these diverse and interesting collections. Curator of Chinese Collections, is of interest not just to scholars but also to the conservation community and beyond. The British Museum has a couple of excellent blogs at It includes lots of information and some excellent images on http://blog.britishmuseum.org/category/conservation. One is how the laborious and complex conservation project was in the middle of describing a year of studying in the Painting carried out by Bodleian conservators Robert Minte and Conservation Studio at the Shanghai Museum to complete Marinita Stiglitz. Robert Minte told Icon News that: ‘the training in traditional scroll mounting. The other details the conservation of the Selden Map of China presented an conservation of an ancient Egyptian shroud, a joint project exciting collaborative opportunity for conservators from the between the British Museum and Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery where the shroud has been stored for a century. A great tale unfolds as the object gives up its secrets. Marinita Stiglitz and Robert Minte removing the old lining d r o f x O f o ‘A very odd mapp of China’ y t i s r e v i Thus was the Chinese historical document now known as the n U , s Selden Map of China described in a 1721 inventory at e i r a r Oxford’s Bodleian Library. An extraordinary survivor from b i L n the17thC, it was once regarded merely as an interesting a i e l curiosity. Now, however, it has been identified as a treasure of d o B unique importance for the light it sheds on cartography, trade © networks, sea routes and China’s place in the world. With this enhancement to its status came the money for much-needed conservation, since the map was in a very bad state and has suffered from past restorations, not least from a linen lining applied in the early 20th century.
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