Lecture on containers

Simple Protective Folder and Box Construction
ICON Book and Paper Group evening lecture
The October Gallery
Londonia House
24 Old Gloucester Street
Bloomsbury, London WC1N 3AL
Tuesday 31 January 2006
6 pm

Speaker: Paul Cook, National Maritime Museum.

Nearest Tube: Holborn

Cost: UKP6 (students UKP3, with card) - correct money at the door please

After conservation treatment it is often advisable to provide some
level of transit protection or a storage enclosure for an item. For
those conservators without access to mount cutting and box making
equipment or technical assistance, it may be necessary to make some
simple enclosure or container by hand. Although a large range of
commercial products are now available, for the occasions where an
item is a one off, of unusual size or makeup, or requires a very
particular packaging solution, a simply constructed, easily made
bespoke enclosure is usually possible. Paul will illustrate with
digital image sequences, simple demonstration and examples, some of
the solutions, construction methods   and little craft tricks   that
have been devised using paper, card and corrugated board to make
enclosures for a wide variety of paper items that have passed
through the paper conservation studio of the National Maritime
Museum.

Icon Book and Paper Group are delighted to announce that drinks and
snacks at this evenings lecture are being sponsored by Rob Shepherd
of Shepherds, Sangorski and Sutcliffe and Zaehnsdorf of Rochester
Row. Since 1st September 2005, sales of conservation and bookbinding
supplies have been moved from Rochester Row to Falkiner Fine Papers.
This shop is extremely close to the lecture venue and will be open
on Tuesday 31 January 2005 until 5:30 pm. The address is :

    Falkiner Fine Papers
    76 Southampton Row
    London WC1 B4AR
    +44 20-7831-1151

Joanna Payne
+44 20 8747 5047
+44 20 8994 5020


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