Recent additions to the collection include :
Hand Made Paper Moulds –DVD (28 mins) I.A. Recordings (2010)
Hand made paper is still in great demand by artists and for commemorative documents. Several mills in the UK still make paper by hand using traditional wooden moulds. Making a mould is a very specialised craft. The only man in Britain still doing it is Ron MacDonald who started with E. Amies and Son Limited of Maidstone in Kent in 1948 and was involved with all aspects of mould making. He carried on into retirement with equipment moved to his home near Maidstone. This DVD shows the skill and craftsmanship which Ron learnt over several decades. Further details here: http://www.iarecordings.org/productions/p20.html
Copper and Bronze in Art: Corrosion, Colorants, Conservation by David A. Scott, Getty Publications, Los Angeles, 2002, 515pp. ISBN: 978-0-89236-638-5
A review of 190 years of literature on copper and its alloys. It integrates information on pigments, corrosion and minerals, and discusses environmental conditions, conservation methods, ancient and historical technologies, and the use of corrosion materials as pigments. Chapters are organized primarily by chemical corrosion products and include such topics as early technologies, copper chlorides and bronze disease, the chemistry and history of turquoise, Egyptian blue and other synthetic copper silicates, the organic salts of copper in bronze corrosion, and bronze patinas. A detailed survey of conservation treatments for bronze objects is also provided. Four appendixes cover copper and bronze chemistry, replication experiments for early pigment recipes, a list of copper minerals and corrosion products, and x-ray diffraction studies.
The British Museum Technical Research Bulletin, Volume 5, 2011 edited by David Saunders, Archetype Publications in association with The British Museum, London, 2011, 104pp
ISBN: 978-1-904982-67-8
Further details, and contents : http://www.archetype.co.uk/publication-details.php?id=132
East Asian Lacquer: Material Culture, Science and Conservation edited by Shayne Rivers, Rupert Faulkner, Boris Pretzel, Archetype Publications, London, 2011, 228pp plus Japanese digital version on DVD. ISBN: 978-1-904982-60-9
A key consequence of the western discovery of sixteenth-century Japan was the emergence of workshops producing lacquerware for the European market. As with East Asian porcelain, Japanese lacquer quickly became an absolute must-have, its gold-on-black pictorial schemes enriching the sumptuous interiors of the aristocratic and wealthy. The Mazarin Chest, which was made in Kyoto in the late 1630s to early 1640s and has belonged to the Victoria and Albert Museum since 1882, is the largest and most spectacular survivor of this specialist industry. Since 2003 it has been the focus of a major research and conservation project involving curators, conservators and scientists in the UK, Germany, Japan and Poland. The main outcomes of this and related research, initially presented at an international conference held at the V&A, are published in this discipline-defining compilation of twenty-one papers.
Further details, and contents : http://www.archetype.co.uk/publication-details.php?id=4
Health & Safety for Museum Professionals edited by Catharine Hawks, Michael McCann, Kathyrn Makos, Lisa Goldberg, David Hinkamp, Dennis Ertel, and Patricia Silence, SPNHC, New York, AIC, Washington, 2011, 645pp. ISBN: 978-0-9841604-9-5
The American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC) and the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections have joined forces on this new reference book for museum professionals. This comprehensive volume is treated in three parts:
Part 1: Principles of Safety and Health – fire protection, occupational hazards, and waste management.
Part 2: Specific Hazards (particulates, chemical hazards, and toxins, physical, mechanical, and electrical hazards, and radiation).
Part 3: Museum Work (facilities management, emergency salvage, collections management, fieldwork, conservation and restoration, and exhibit protection and maintenance).
If you would like to find out more about any of the items listed above – please contact chantrylibrary@icon.org.uk
