Workshop on parchment

"Parchment:  Latest assessment methods"
Horn, Austria
16-20 May 2011

Further education course held by Dr. Rene Larsen, Dorte Vestergaard
Poulsen, Kathleen Muhlen Axelsson from the Royal Danish Academy of
Fine Arts, School of Conservation

Unfortunately it is still widespread thinking that "a bit more
humid" is good for parchment, which is by no means true according to
latest findings.

The Workshop is especially directed to training
conservators-restorers, curators, archivists and librarians in
managing and monitoring of collections of parchments as well as the
assessment of their damage in environmental ageing conditions.
Participants will be taught the macroscopic and microscopic
examination (visual assessment) techniques used to assess the "state
of health" of parchment. The use the databases created by the IDAP,
PDAP (Parchment Damage Assessment Programme), EWS (Early Warning
System) and DUPDA (Digitised User-Friendly Parchment Damage Atlas)
will be demonstrated.

The participants will be provided with materials and guidelines for
the laboratory experiments.

The course language will be English. The deadline for application is
one month before the course starts.

The course fee plus accommodation (4 nights) is 640,00 Euro plus 10%
VAT. The number of participants is restricted to 20. Accommodation
during the course is within the building and is included in the
price.

Registration

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Parchment books and charts belonging to historic libraries and
archives of Horn will provide all sorts of parchments and their
condition states for demonstration. Participant also can bring own
samples if they wish to.

The venue is the Renaissance castle housing the European Research
Centre for Book and Paper Conservation-Restoration. After
application you will be provided with further information.

Dr. Patricia Engel
European Research Centre for Book and Paper Conservation-Restoration
Wienerstrasse 2
3580 Horn
Austria
+43 650 58 71 877
Fax: +43 2982 200 30 28


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