Workshop on feather conservation

Workshop on feather conservation
The Brighton Building Conservation Lab
University of Cambridge
26-27 May 2016

Cost: UKP220

University of Cambridge Museums (UCM) is hosting a two-day workshop
on the conservation of feathers on 26-27 May 2016.  The course will
be led by Allyson Rae, who has extensive experience in the
conservation of artefacts incorporating feathers.  Now a freelance
conservator, she was Head of Organic Artefacts Conservation at the
British Museum until 2006.

Encompassing both theoretical and practical sessions, the workshop
will cover the structure and nature of feathers, their causes of
deterioration and principles and practice for non-interventive and
basic interventive options (soil removal, reshaping, repair
techniques).  We will consider feathers in most contexts, including
ethnography, costume and natural history collections.  Participants
are encouraged to bring images of feathered objects to the workshop
for discussion.

For further details about the course and to book, please visit:

    <URL:http://onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&deptid=93&catid=213&prodid=2790>

Please note that the number of places on the course is limited.  For
further information please contact Joy Martin <jlm53<-at->cam<.>ac<.>uk>.


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