by Sarah Foskett, University Teacher. Sitting in Dubai airport awaiting a connection to Glasgow gave me ample opportunity to reflect on IIC 2014 Hong Kong Congress, An Unbroken History: Conserving East Asian Works of Art and Heritage. It had hardly seemed a week since I was doing the reverse journey out to Hong Kong, such… Continue reading
Image©National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. By Nora Meller, Textile Conservation Intern at the National Maritime Museum. Doing an internship after graduation is a great opportunity for learning while you are practically working. It is a way to gain more experience in conservation and carry out research, interact with fellow professionals to widen your skillset, and… Continue reading
by Emma Schmitt, 2nd year student, MPhil Textile Conservation. The final assignment undertaken in the second year is the dissertation, a 15,000-20,000-word project. During 12 weeks over the summer session we research and write on a topic of our own interest and choosing. The dissertation offers the chance to focus on a specific interest, build… Continue reading
By Frances Lennard, Senior Lecturer. First-year student Geraldine Sim and I recently visited Karen Finch OBE at her home in Walthamstow. Karen, who is now in her 90s, has an international reputation as one of the founders of modern textile conservation. She set up the Textile Conservation Centre (TCC) at Hampton Court Palace in 1975.… Continue reading
by Melissa Bolin, second year student, MPhil Textile Conservation. As part of my second year studies I was given the opportunity to work on a Māori Cloak, or kākahu (GLAHM E.422) now in the collection at The Hunterian. The cloak is originally from New Zealand and is likely to be an eighteenth century example collected during… Continue reading
by Geraldine Sim, First year student, MPhil Textile Conservation Between the first and second years of the MPhil Textile Conservation programme students undertake a work placement of a minimum of six weeks. I’ve been so lucky to have the opportunity to undertake mine at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. I’m currently 8 weeks… Continue reading
by Frances Lennard, Senior Lecturer. I am delighted that Dr Sally Tuckett will be taking up a new post as Lecturer in Dress and Textile History from September. Sally was a guest lecturer last year on the MLitt Dress and Textile Histories programme and will lead the programme this year, working in collaboration with… Continue reading
by Geraldine Sim and Gennifer Majors As the last project before our work placement, those of us in our first year at the CTC undertook an exciting new adventure in our studies: a collaborative project with the British Museum to conserve ancient archaeological textiles. These pieces had been buried for over a thousand years in… Continue reading
by Julie Wertz and Jing Han, PhD students. This year the Centre for Textile Conservation and Technical Art History collaborated with the School of Chemistry to host a hands-on workshop for students aged 12-14. Two sessions of about 90 minutes each took place as part of the Glasgow Science Festival. The event was funded by the… Continue reading
Toolika Gupta, PhD researcher with the Centre for Textile Conservation, has appeared in the Pune Mirror newspaper in India. Her views on dress and politics were sought for an article on power dressing in India, inspired by the sartorial style of recently elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Toolika is studying the impact of the British… Continue reading
