by Caitlyn Picard: MPhil Textile Conservation Student Year 2. This upcoming year, my peers at the Centre for Textile Conservation (CTC) and I are participating in a unique project. We are partnering with Glasgow Museums in a project that is designed to monitor the environmental conditions in the exhibition: ‘A Century of Style: Costume and… Continue reading
by Harriet Perkins, Second Year MPhil Textile Conservation student and Sarah Foskett, University Teacher. Every year, the second year students give presentations about the work placements they undertake in the summer. The presentations are a super opportunity for the students to share their experiences with staff, Textile Conservation Foundation (TCF) trustees and other students, including, of… Continue reading
By Frances Lennard, Senior Lecturer in Textile Conservation. Tapestry conservation research has just received a great boost: the Leverhulme Trust has recently made an award of £200,000 to the University of Glasgow to carry out research into tapestry conservation and display. There are many magnificent collections of tapestries in museums and historic houses but they… Continue reading
by Freya Gabbutt, 2nd year student, MPhil Textile Conservation. In August, during parliamentary recess, three students from the MPhil Textile Conservation programme at University of Glasgow and one BA (Hons) Conservation of Cultural Heritage from the University of Lincoln worked together to work to maintain the Contemporary Textile Collection… Continue reading
The Textile Conservation programme is very fortunate to be supported by The Weavers Society of Anderston, one of the organisations associated with The Trades House of Glasgow. The Weavers Society presented student Hannah Vickers with a Certificate of Excellence at their annual lunch held on 11 September, to recognise her achievements in the first… Continue reading
by Geraldine Sim, 2nd year student MPhil Textile Conservation. About the project For my final year dissertation of the MPhil Textile Conservation course at the University of Glasgow, I am working with Dr Carol Christiansen from the Shetland Museum and Archives on the re-housing of a collection of archaeological textile fragments from the island of… Continue reading
by Frances Lennard, Senior Lecturer in Textile Conservation. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Textile Conservation Centre (TCC) by Karen Finch OBE – an excellent opportunity to reflect on four decades of textile conservation education in the UK. Karen was a pioneering textile conservator. After working at the V&A she established… Continue reading
By Frances Lennard, Senior Lecturer in Textile Conservation. We are delighted that a graduate of the MPhil Textile Conservation has been shortlisted for the prestigious Pilgrim Trust Student Conservator of the Year Award, one of the categories of the 2015 Icon Conservation Awards. Charlotte Gamper’s dissertation research on the conservation of viscose rayon is one of… Continue reading
By Maria Kinti, 2nd year student, MPhil Textile Conservation. Two years of studying Textile Conservation in Glasgow are about to finish with the final assignment, the dissertation, being in progress during this summer. This is a 15,000- words project that we undertake during 12 weeks. The topics each year are research based and range from… Continue reading
by Anita Quye, Lecturer, Conservation Science. I am thrilled to announce that Julie Wertz, Lord Kelvin Adam Smith PhD Scholar, is the winner of the British Science Association’s prestigious Jacob Bronowski Award Lecture for science and the arts. This recognises Julie’s outstanding communication skills for her cutting-edge novel research to recreate 19th c Turkey red dyeing to… Continue reading
