by Nora Frankel, 2nd year student, MPhil Textile Conservation. It would not be incorrect to imagine that a typical day in the conservation studio for a textile conservator involves costumes, furnishings, tapestries, and many of the every day objects throughout history that are constructed of fabric. Sometimes, however, a unique object requires attention that falls… Continue reading
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 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
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
by Karen Thompson, University Teacher. Frances Lennard, Margaret Smith and I were delighted to have been invited to join the cutting off ceremony at Stirling Castle for the last of the Unicorn tapestries, ‘The Mystic Hunt of the Unicorn’, just before Christmas. The tapestry was the final stage of a long-term partnership between the West Dean… Continue reading
by Sarah Foskett, University teacher. Frances, Anita, Karen and I were delighted to be present at the graduation of the 2012-2014 cohort of students, Maria Grabowska Armstrong, Emily Austin, Rosie Chamberlin, Melissa Bolin, Moe Sato, Emma Schmitt and Alice Young, from the programme on Monday 1st December and to celebrate with them the attainment of… Continue reading
by Sarah Benson, CTC Graduate, 2013. In Spring 2013 when I was beginning work on my master’s dissertation (which evaluated synthetic and natural threads used in textile conservation), I felt very strongly that the dissemination of our work should be to as wide an audience as possible, contributing to the growth of conservation. I fully… Continue reading
by Stella Gardner, CTC Graduate, 2013. This year’s ICOM-CC conference in Melbourne was my first experience of a major international conference and it was rather exciting travelling to Australia to mingle with 500+ conservators from all over the world! It also gave me and several former CTC students the chance to meet up again after… Continue reading
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
